Plunder av Cynthia Saltzman

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<p><b>One of <i>The Christian Science Monitor</i>''s Ten Best Books of May</b><br><b><br>"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.¿</b><b>¿Roger Lowenstein, <i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b><br><b><br>A captivatingstudy of Napoleon¿s plundering of Europe¿s art for the Louvre, told through the story of a Renaissance masterpiece seized from Venice<br></b><br>Cynthia Saltzman¿s <i>Plunder</i> recounts the fate of Paolo Veronese¿s <i>Wedding Feast at Cana</i>, 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¿ sp