Cynthia SaltzmanPlunder: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast
Sprecher: Toren, Suzanne
Cynthia Saltzman is the author of Portrait of Dr. Gachet: The Story of a Van Gogh Masterpiece and Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures. A former reporter for Forbes and The Wall Street Journal, she is the recipient of a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and has degrees in art history from Harvard and the University of California at Berkeley. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Introduction: "One of the greatest [paintings] ever made with a brush"
1. "Send me a list of the pictures, statues, cabinets and curiosities"
2. Venice need not "fear that the French Armies would not fully respect its
neutrality"
3. "Master Paolo will . . . not spare any expense for the finest
ultramarine"
4. "He is rich in plans"
5. "This museum must demonstrate the nation's great riches"
6. "Draw as much as you can from Venetian territory"
7. "The Pope will deliver . . . one hundred paintings, busts, vases or
statues"
8. "I'm on a path a thousand times more glorious"
9. "The Republic of Venice will surrender . . . twenty paintings"
10. "In the Church of St. George . . . The Wedding Feast at Cana"
11. "We . . . have received from Citizen Pietro Edwards"
12. "The most secure way would be to send them on a frigate, with 32
cannons"
13. "The seam . . . will be unstitched"
14. "The Revolution . . . is finished"
15. "You enter a gallery-such a gallery. But such a gallery!!!"
16. "The transparency of air . . . place[s] Gros beside Tintoretto and Paul
Veronese"
17. "This beautiful work reminds us of the picture by Paul Veronese"
18. "I succeeded . . . in packing most of the pieces of small size and
great value"
19. "The only thing to do is to burn them!"
20. "This foreboding painting . . . seems to summon the eye . . . from all
directions"
21. "The masterpieces of the arts now belong to us"
22. "We are at last beginning to drag forth from this great cavern of
stolen goods the precious objects of Art"
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
