{"product_id":"plunder-9781250861481","title":"Plunder","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e's Ten Best Books of May\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eRoger Lowenstein, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA captivating study of Napoleon's plundering of Europe's art for the Louvre, told through the story of a Renaissance masterpiece seized from Venice\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCynthia Saltzman's \u003ci\u003ePlunder\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the fate of Veronese's \u003ci\u003eWedding Feast at Cana\u003c\/i\u003e, a vast, sublime canvas that the French, under the command of a young Napoleon Bonaparte, tore from a wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, on an island in Venice, in 1797. Painted in 1563, the Renaissance picture had been immediately hailed as a masterpiece. Veronese had spread the scene across the end wall of the monastery's refectory and filled it with some 130 figures, lavishing color on the ca\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528999477591,"sku":"9781250861481","price":16.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781250861481.jpg?v=1731873894","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/plunder-9781250861481","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}