PLUNDER: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast

Recounts the fate of Veronese's Wedding Feast at Cana, 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. As Saltzman tells the larger story of Napoleon's looting of Italian art, she reveals defining traits of his character. Color illus.