{"product_id":"book-ep9f","title":"Plunder","description":"Cynthia Saltzman's \u003ci\u003ePlunder\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the fate of Paolo Veronese's \u003ci\u003eWedding Feast at Cana\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. In 1801, the Veronese went on exhibition at the Louvre, the new public art museum founded during the Revolution in the former palace of the French kings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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: his thirst for greatness—to carry forward the finest aspects of civilization—and his ruthlessness in getting whatever he sought. After Napoleon's 1815 defeat at Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington and the Allies forced the French to return many of the Louvre's plundered paintings and sculptures. Nevertheless, \u003ci\u003eThe Wedding Feast at Cana\u003c\/i\u003e remains in Paris to this day, hanging directly across from the \u003ci\u003eMona Lisa\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Expertly researched and deftly told, \u003ci\u003ePlunder\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in history, one that sheds light on a seminal historical figure and the complex origins of one of the great museums of the world.","brand":"Tantor","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49366689087792,"sku":"BDep9f","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49366689153328,"sku":"ZEep9f","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49366689218864,"sku":"ZMep9f","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/ep9f-Square-cover.jpg?v=1780039027","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ep9f","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}