Ebook: Stealing the Mystic Lamb: the true story of the world's most coveted masterpiece
Author: Charney Noah, Eyck Jan van
- Tags: Art thefts--Belgium--Ghent, Art thefts, Nonfiction, Eyck Jan van -- 1390-1440. -- Ghent altarpiece, Art thefts -- Belgium -- Ghent, Ghent altarpiece (Eyck Jan van), Belgium -- Ghent, Eyck Jan van -- 1390-1441 -- Genter Altar
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: PublicAffairs
- City: New York;Belgium;Ghent
- Edition: 1st ed
- Language: English
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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.
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