NAPOLEON'S PLUNDER AND THE THEFT OF VERONESE'S FEAST

Napoleons 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 Musée Napoléon, now known as the Louvre. It centres on the story of Napoleons theft of Paolo Veroneses 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 Napoleons spoils of war, which he claimed for the French nation and displayed in a public...[Llegir més]