Plunder
A captivating tale of Napoleon''s audacious art theft and the creation of the Louvre museum.
Plunder recounts the dramatic fate of Paolo Veronese''s Renaissance masterpiece, Wedding Feast at Cana. In 1797, under Napoleon Bonaparte''s command, French forces tore this sublime canvas from a wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. Veronese''s painting, filled with 130 figures and lavis...
A captivating tale of Napoleon''s audacious art theft and the creation of the Louvre museum.
Plunder recounts the dramatic fate of Paolo Veronese''s Renaissance masterpiece, Wedding Feast at Cana. In 1797, under Napoleon Bonaparte''s command, French forces tore this sublime canvas from a wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. Veronese''s painting, filled with 130 figures and lavis...
