Napoleon's Plunder chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in history and, in doing so, sheds new light on the complex origins of what was once called the Musee Napoleon, now known as the Louvre. It centres on the story of Napoleon's theft of Paolo Veronese's Wedding Feast at Cana, a vast, sublime canvas that in 1797 the French army tore from a wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. Feast was just one of Napoleon's spoils of war, which he claimed for the French nation and displayed in a public museum - the Louvre. He filled the former palace of t Napoleon's Plunder and the Theft of Veronese's Feast - Cynthia Saltzman od authora Cynthia Saltzman a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
| Autor |
Cynthia Saltzman |
| Jazyk |
anglický |
| Počet stran |
320 |
| Rok vydání |
2022 |
| Nakladatelství |
Thames & Hudson |
