TY  - BOOK
AU  - Charney,Noah
TI  - Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The true story of the world's most coveted masterpiece 
SN  - 9781586488000 (alk. paper)
AV  - ND673.E87 A63 2010
U1  - 759.9493 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - PublicAffairs
KW  - Eyck, Jan van,
KW  - Art thefts
KW  - Belgium
KW  - Ghent
N1  - 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?
N2  - 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
ER  -