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. She has also written for Forbes and The Wall Street Journal.

Introduction: "The theft of Veronese's Feast"
1. "Send Me a List of the Pictures, Statues, Cabinets and Curiosities."
2. "Do Not Fear the French Armies Will Not Respect Venetian Neutrality."
3. "Master Paolo ... Will ... Not Spare Any Expense for the Finest Ultramarine."
4. "He is Rich in Plans."
5. "The 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... 20 Paintings and 600 Manuscripts."
10. "In the Church of S. George, No. 6. The Wedding Feast at Cana."
11. "We ... Have Received from Citizen Pietro Edwards."
12. "The Safest Way is to Send Them on a Frigate with 32 Canons."
13. "The Seam will be Unstitched."
14. "The Revolution ... is Finished."
15. "You Enter a Gallery-such a gallery. But such a gallery!!!" Louvre 1801-1802
16. "This One Besides Nature Doesn't Look to Have Been Painted."
17. "The Transparency of Air ... Place[s] Gros beside Tintoretto and Paul Veronese"
18. "This Beautiful Work Reminds Us of the Picture by Paul Veronese."
19. "I Succeeded ... in Packing Most of the Pieces of Small Size and Great Value."
20. "The Only Thing to Do Is to Burn Them!"
21. "This Foreboding Painting... Seems to Summon the Eye from All Directions."
22. "The Masterpieces of the Arts Now Belong to Us."
23. "We Are At Last Beginning to Drag Forth from This Great Cavern of Stolen Goods the Precious Objects of Art."
Epilogue: Veronese 2020