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One of The Christian Science Monitor 's Ten Best Books of May "A highly original work of history . . . [Saltzman] has written a distinctive study that transcends both art and history and forces us to explore the connections between the two. Roger Lowenstein, The Wall Street Journal A captivatingstudy of Napoleons plundering of Europes art for the Louvre, told through the story of a Renaissance masterpiece seized from Venice Cynthia Saltzmans Plunder recounts the fate of Paolo Veroneses Wedding Feast at Cana , a vast, sublime canvas that the French, under the command of the young Napoleon Bonaparte, tore from a wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, on an island in Venice, in 1797. Painted in 1563 during the Renaissance, the picture was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. Veronese had filled the scene with some 130 figures, lavishing color on the canvas to build the illusion that the viewers space opened onto a biblical banquet taking place on a terrace in sixteenth-century Venice. Once pulled from the wall, the Venetian canvas crossed the Mediterranean rolled on a cylinder; soon after, artworks commandeered from Venice and Rome were triumphantly brought into Paris. In 1801

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Author

Saltzman, Cynthia, author

Publisher

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374219031

Category

history

Subjects

Art, History, Arts

Rating

4.5 / 5 (144 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14