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100 1 Easter, Gerald,|d1959-|eauthor.
245 14 The Tsarina's lost treasure :|bCatherine the Great, a
golden age masterpiece, and a legendary shipwreck /
|cGerald Easter and Mara Vorhees.
250 First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
264 1 New York :|bPegasus Books,|c2020.
264 4 |c©2020
300 xvii, 366 pages,16 unnumbered pages of plates :|bcolor
illustrations ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
336 still image|bsti|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
500 Maps on endpapers.
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-351) and
index.
505 0 Prologue: The wreck -- Rembrandt's apprentice -- The
prince's bride -- From pupil to master -- From fräulein to
empress -- Temple of arts -- The tsarina's salon -- Sale
of the century -- Catherine's treasure ship lost -- Age of
revolution -- Graveyard of wrecks -- The wreck hunter --
Golden age secrets revealed -- Restoring a master --
Catherine's treasure ship found -- Finders keepers -- The
Dutch retreat -- The Swedish patron -- The Russian advance
-- The Finnish plan -- Catherine's treasure ship abandoned
-- Epilogue: The treasure.
520 "On October 1771, a merchant ship out of Amsterdam, Vrouw
Maria, crashed off the stormy Finnish coast, taking her
historic cargo to the depths of the Baltic Sea. The vessel
was delivering a dozen Dutch masterpiece paintings to
Europe's most voracious collector: Catherine the Great,
Empress of Russia. Among the lost treasures was The
Nursery, an oak-paneled triptych by Leiden fine painter
Gerrit Dou, Rembrandt's most brilliant student and
Holland's first international superstar artist. Dou's
triptych was long the most beloved and most coveted
painting of the Dutch Golden Age, and its loss in the
shipwreck was mourned throughout the art world. Vrouw
Maria, meanwhile, became a maritime legend, confounding
would-be salvagers for more than two hundred years. In
July 1999, a daring Finnish wreck hunter found Vrouw Maria,
upright on the sea floor and perfectly preserved. The
Tsarina's Lost Treasure masterfully recounts the
fascinating tale of Vrouw Maria--her loss and discovery--
weaving together the rise and fall of the artist whose
priceless masterpiece was the jewel of the wreckage.
Gerald Easter and Mara Vorhees bring to vivid life the
personalities that drove (and are still driving) this
compelling tale, evoking Robert Massie's depiction of
Russian high politics and culture, Simon Schama's insights
into Dutch Golden Age art and art history, Gary Kinder's
spirit of, danger and adventure on the beguiling
Archipelago Sea" --Amazon.
600 00 Catherine|bII,|cEmpress of Russia,|d1729-1796.
600 07 Catherine|bII,|cEmpress of Russia,|d1729-1796.|2fast
|0(OCoLC)fst00053521
600 10 Dou, Gerald,|d1613-1675.|tNursery.
648 7 1700-1799|2fast
650 0 Shipwrecks|zBaltic Sea|xHistory|y18th century.
650 0 Antiques.
650 7 Antiques.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00810720
650 7 Shipwrecks.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01116638
651 7 Atlantic Ocean|zBaltic Sea.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01241545
655 7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628
700 1 Vorhees, Mara,|eauthor.
994 C0|bCKE
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