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Stealing the Mystic Lamb : the true story of the world's most coveted masterpiece
- Title
- Stealing the Mystic Lamb : the true story of the world's most coveted masterpiece / Noah Charney.
- Author
- Charney, Noah.
- Publication
- New York : PublicAffairs, ©2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | ND673.E87 A63 2010 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- True story of the world's most coveted masterpiece
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-300) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue. The wolves and the Lamb -- 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 -- Epilogue. Hidden in plain sight?
- ISBN
- 9781586488000
- 1586488007
- LCCN
- 2010019795
- OCLC
- ocn317925790
- 317925790
- SCSB-1569194
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library