Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece

by Noah Charney

Book Overview

Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece is on any art historian's list of the ten most important paintings ever made. It is also the most frequently stolen artwork of all time. Since its completion in 1432, this twelve-panel oil painting has been looted in three different wars, burned, dismembered, forged, smuggled, censored, hidden, attacked by iconoclasts, hunted by the Nazis and Napoleon, used as a diplomatic tool, ransomed, rescued by Austrian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610390962
• ISBN13: 9781610390965
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"