Books by Cynthia Saltzman

3. Cynthia Saltzman, Plunder: Napoleon’s Theft of Veronese’s Feast .  Among other things, this book shows how clearly Napoleon understood the role of art in both reflecting and cementing power.  Nor had I known that Canova, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Napoleon all had a single intersecting story, revolving around the theft and return of art.