| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page [243]) and index. |
| Contents |
The storm on the sea of Galilee : a disturbance in the courtyard -- Chez Tortoni : the art detective -- A lady and gentlemen in black : it was a passion -- The concert : the picture habit -- Cortege aux environs de Florence : the art of the theft -- Landscape with an obelisk : something that big -- Ku : unfinished business -- Three mounted jockeys : infiltrate and infatuate -- Self-portrait : I was the one -- Program for an artistic soiree : any news on your side -- Program for an artistic soiree II : where's Whitey? -- La sortie de pesage : put my picture on the cover -- Finial : like a spiderweb. |
| Summary |
Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after thousands of leads, hundreds of interviews, and a $5-million reward, not a single painting has been recovered. Worth a total of $500 million, the missing masterpieces have become the Holy Grail of the art world and one of the nation's most extraordinary unsolved mysteries. |
| Subject |
Art thefts -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
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Theft from museums -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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| ISBN |
9780061451836 (acid-free paper) |
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0061451835 (acid-free paper) |
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