Cynthia Saltzman, Author . Viking $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-01831-4
As these two books show, art has long been about business, status—and sometimes even the love of art.
Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures
Cynthia Saltzman
. Viking
, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-670-01831-4
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Cynthia Saltzman, Author Viking Books $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-670-86223-8
Saltzman's meticulously researched narrative shows how historical forces and turning points in individual lives have determined the fate of a celebrated painting. The story begins in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, where a disturbed Vincent van Gogh...
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Cynthia Saltzman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-21903-1
Art historian Saltzman (Old Masters, New World) provides a rich account of Napoleon’s looting of Italian masterpieces as he battled the Austrian Empire across Italy in the late 18th century. Saltzman focuses on Renaissance artist Paolo Veronese’s...
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