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010 2010019795
020 9781586488000|qalkaline paper
020 1586488007|qalkaline paper
035 (OCoLC)317925790
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050 00 ND673.E87|bA63 2010
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100 1 Charney, Noah.
245 10 Stealing the Mystic Lamb :|bthe true story of the world's
most coveted masterpiece /|cNoah Charney.
246 30 True story of the world's most coveted masterpiece
250 First edition.
264 1 New York :|bPublicAffairs,|c[2010]
264 4 |c©2010
300 xiv, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
|billustrations (some color) ;|c25 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-300) and
index.
505 0 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?
520 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.
600 10 Eyck, Jan van,|d1390-1440.|tGhent altarpiece.
650 0 Art thefts|zBelgium|zGhent.
994 02|bWHP
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