San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk (Monet)
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| title = | height = 65.2 | width = 92.4 | museum = National Museum Cardiff }} San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk is an oil painting by Claude Monet that was painted in 1908. The painting is owned by National Museum Cardiff, the national art gallery of Wales.
The painting received substantial public attention as the focus of John McTiernan's 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, a heist film where the painting (identified as being worth $100 million) is stolen by a billionaire, played by Pierce Brosnan.
It is sometimes known as Dusk in Venice, or Sunset in Venice.
San Giorgio Maggiore is an island off of the coast of Venice, Italy.
[edit] External links
- Art Collections Online | National Museum Wales Retrieved 27 May 2010
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