Plunder

Napoleon's theft of Veronese's Feast

Plunder

Napoleon's theft of Veronese's Feast
Cynthia Saltzman
Book - 2021

"History of Napoleon's art looting of Italy and the subsequent formation of the Louvre"--

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Main Author: Saltzman, Cynthia (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
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520 |a Painted in 1563, Paolo Veronese's Wedding Feast at Cana was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. Lavish color built the illusion that the viewers' space opened onto a biblical banquet taking place on a terrace in sixteenth-century Venice. In 1797, under the command of a young Napoleon Bonaparte, it was torn from the wall of a monastery in Venice and in 1801 went on exhibition at the Louvre. As Saltzman tells the larger story of Napoleon's looting of Italian art and its role in the creation of the Louvre, she reveals the contradictions of his character and his ruthlessness in getting whatever he sought. The Wedding Feast at Cana remains in Paris to this day, hanging directly across from the Mona Lisa. -- adapted from jacket 
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