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The Mona Lisa vanishes : a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity
- Title
- The Mona Lisa vanishes : a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity / Nicholas Day ; with art by Brett Helquist.
- Author
- Day, Nick (Nicholas)
- Publication
- New York : Random House Studio, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, [2023]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Helquist, Brett
- Description
- 276 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c'est partie! The Mona Lisa, she's gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? Travel back to an extraordinary period of revolutionary change: turn-of-the-century Paris. Walk its backstreets. Meet the infamous thieves--and detectives--of the era. And then slip back further in time and follow Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the Mona Lisa, through his dazzling, wondrously weird life. Discover the secret at the heart of the Mona Lisa--the most famous painting in the world should never have existed at all" --
- Alternative Title
- Legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Creative nonfiction
- Juvenile works
- Creative nonfiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Audience (note)
- Ages 10-14
- Grades 5-9
- Awards (note)
- Robert F. Sibert Medal, 2024.
- Contents
- A star is born -- She's gone -- Tell me, tell me, tell me - The Mona Lisa is nowhere, the Mona Lisa is everywhere -- Everything that is possible to do -- The consummate professional -- Marry or else -- Gigantic figures in human shape -- An improbable series of improbable events -- A wild and perfect pair -- A dangerous woman -- My name is Leonard -- The afterlife.
- Call Number
- JFE 24-413
- ISBN
- 9780593643846
- 0593643844
- 9780593643853
- 0593643852
- 9780593643860 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023017551
- OCLC
- 1356890669
- Author
- Day, Nick (Nicholas), author.
- Title
- The Mona Lisa vanishes : a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity / Nicholas Day ; with art by Brett Helquist.
- Publisher
- New York : Random House Studio, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, [2023]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Audience
- Ages 10-14 Random House Studio.Grades 5-9 Random House Studio.
- Awards
- Robert F. Sibert Medal, 2024.
- Added Author
- Helquist, Brett, illustrator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Day, Nick (Nicholas) Mona Lisa vanishes New York : Random House Studio, [2023] 9780593643860 (DLC) 2023017552
- Research Call Number
- JFE 24-413