How Long to Read Napoleons Plunder and the Theft of Veroneses Feast

How Long Does it Take to Read Napoleons Plunder and the Theft of Veroneses Feast?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 52 minutes to read Napoleons Plunder and the Theft of Veroneses Feast by Saltzman Cynthia

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Description

Napoleons Plunder chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in history and, in doing so, sheds new light on the complex origins of what was once called the Musée Napoléon, now known as the Louvre. In 1796, four years after the founding of the First French Republic and only two days after his marriage to Josephine de Beauharnais, Napoleon Bonaparte left Paris to take command of his first campaign in Italy, aged only twenty-six. One year later, Napoleons army was in Venice and his commissioners were determining which great Renaissance artworks to bring back to France. Among the paintings the French chose was The Wedding Feast at Cana by Paolo Veronese, a vast masterpiece that had hung in the refectory of San Giorgio Maggiore since it was painted in 1563. Once pulled from the wall, the Venetian canvas crossed the Mediterranean packed among paintings commandeered from Venice and made its way by river and canal to Paris where Napoleon gathered his spoils of war treasures from the cities of Rome, Milan, and later Berlin and Vienna. In 1801 the Veronese was placed on triumphant display in the Louvre, the former palace of the French kings, which had been transformed into a public museum that ostensibly belonged to the French people, but which also functioned as a monument to Napoleons power. Saltzman interweaves the stories of Napoleons military campaigns, uncovering the treaties through which he obtained his loot, with the histories of the plundered works themselves, exploring how these masterpieces came into being. As much as a story of military might, this is an account of one of the most ambitious cultural projects ever conducted.

How long is Napoleons Plunder and the Theft of Veroneses Feast?

Napoleons Plunder and the Theft of Veroneses Feast by Saltzman Cynthia is 411 pages long, and a total of 103,161 words.

This makes it 139% the length of the average book. It also has 126% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Napoleons Plunder and the Theft of Veroneses Feast Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 23 minutes to read Napoleons Plunder and the Theft of Veroneses Feast aloud.

What Reading Level is Napoleons Plunder and the Theft of Veroneses Feast?

Napoleons Plunder and the Theft of Veroneses Feast is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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