Plunder: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast by Cynthia Saltzman

Plunder: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast

Cynthia Saltzman

336 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction art history adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
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A captivating in-depth study of Napoleon's plundering of Europe's art and how it legitimized the Louvre. Vast and sublime, more than twenty-two feet tall and thirty-two feet wide, and featuring a brilliantly staged, lavishly colored banquet with s...

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