Stealing the Mystic Lamb:
Charney, Noah
Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The true story of the world's most coveted masterpiece True story of the world's most coveted masterpiece Noah Charney. - 1st ed. - New York: PublicAffairs, c2010. - xiv, 318 p., [8] p. of plates: ill. (some col.); 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-300) and index.
The mysteries of the masterpiece -- The magician in the red turban -- The burning of the Lamb -- Thieves of revolution and empire -- Illicit collectors' paradise -- The canon hides the Lamb -- Thieves in the cathedral -- The world's greatest treasure hunt -- Raising the buried treasure -- Hidden in plain sight?
Presents a history of the world's most pilfered masterpiece--Jan van Eyck's "Ghent Alterpiece," treasured for its central panel, "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb"--which has been looted in three wars, burned, forged, smuggled, hunted by the Nazis, and stolen thirteen times.
9781586488000 (alk. paper) 1586488007 (alk. paper)
2010019795
Eyck, Jan van, 1390-1440. Ghent altarpiece.
Art thefts--Belgium--Ghent.
ND673.E87 / A63 2010
759.9493
Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The true story of the world's most coveted masterpiece True story of the world's most coveted masterpiece Noah Charney. - 1st ed. - New York: PublicAffairs, c2010. - xiv, 318 p., [8] p. of plates: ill. (some col.); 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-300) and index.
The mysteries of the masterpiece -- The magician in the red turban -- The burning of the Lamb -- Thieves of revolution and empire -- Illicit collectors' paradise -- The canon hides the Lamb -- Thieves in the cathedral -- The world's greatest treasure hunt -- Raising the buried treasure -- Hidden in plain sight?
Presents a history of the world's most pilfered masterpiece--Jan van Eyck's "Ghent Alterpiece," treasured for its central panel, "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb"--which has been looted in three wars, burned, forged, smuggled, hunted by the Nazis, and stolen thirteen times.
9781586488000 (alk. paper) 1586488007 (alk. paper)
2010019795
Eyck, Jan van, 1390-1440. Ghent altarpiece.
Art thefts--Belgium--Ghent.
ND673.E87 / A63 2010
759.9493