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Stealing the Mystic Lamb
The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece
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By Noah Charney
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Since its completion in 1432, this twelve-panel oil painting has been looted in three different wars, burned, dismembered, forged, smuggled, illegally sold, censored, hidden, attacked by iconoclasts, hunted by the Nazis and Napoleon, used as a diplomatic tool, ransomed, rescued by Austrian double-agents, and stolen a total of thirteen times.
In this fast-paced, real-life thriller, art historian Noah Charney unravels the stories of each of these thefts. In the process, he illuminates the whole fascinating history of art crime, and the psychological, ideological, religious, political, and social motivations that have led many men to covet this one masterpiece above all others.
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- On Sale
- Oct 5, 2010
- Page Count
- 336 pages
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- ISBN-13
- 9781586489243
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