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Sacred And Stolen
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Author : Gary Vikan
language : en
Publisher: SelectBooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2016-09-20
Sacred And Stolen written by Gary Vikan and has been published by SelectBooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-20 with Art categories.
Sacred and Stolen is the memoir of an art museum director with the courage to reveal what goes on behind the scenes. Gary Vikan lays bare the messy underbelly of museum life: looted antiquities, crooked dealers, deluded collectors, duplicitous public officials, fakes, inside thefts, bribery, and failed exhibitions. These backstories, at once shocking and comical, reveal a man with a taste for adventure, an eagerness to fan the flames of excitement, and comfort with the chaos that often ensued. A Minnesota kid who started out as a printer’s devil in his father’s small-town newspaper, Vikan ended up as the director of The Walters Art Museum, a gem of a museum in Baltimore. Sacred and Stolen reveals his quest to bring the “holy” into the museum experience as he struggles to reconcile his passion for acquiring sacred works of art with his suspicion that they were stolen. The cast of characters in his many adventures include the elegant French oil heiress, Dominique de Menil, the notorious Turkish smuggler, Aydin Dikmen, his slippery Dutch dealer, Michel van Rijn, the inscrutable and implacable Patriarchs of Ethiopia and Georgia, and the charismatic President of Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze—along with a mysterious thief of a gorgeous Renoir painting missing from a museum for over sixty years. When the painting suddenly shows up, it’s Vikan who tracks down the culprit. In his afterword Vikan explains his coming to grips with the realities of art dealing in our present dangerous world that includes the fanatical iconoclasm of the Islamic State. We know of the violent destruction and looting of precious treasures of antiquity and unscrupulous black market art dealers who take advantage of international conflicts to possess them. Sacred and Stolen is a truly eye-opening account of art dealing in the modern world.
The Secret Of The Sacred Panel
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Author : Karl Hammer
language : en
Publisher: Stacey International Publishers
Release Date : 2010
The Secret Of The Sacred Panel written by Karl Hammer and has been published by Stacey International Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
FORGERY, FALSIFICATION & THEFT OF ARTWORKS. In 1934, part of a Van Eyck masterpiece was stolen from Ghent Cathedral. It has never been found. In The Secret of the Sacred Panel, Dutch author Karl Hammer reports the amazing story told to him by Tom R., an art historian who was enlisted to spy for the CIA and MI5 during WWII in order to trace the whereabouts of the vast horde of art stolen by the Nazis. His search for the missing altarpiece, led to the greater quest for the Arma Christi, the nails and crown of thorns of Jesus' crucifixion.
The Stolen Gods
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Author : Jake Page
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 2002
The Stolen Gods written by Jake Page and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Fiction categories.
When a major dealer of Native American art is murdered, Mo Bowdre and his girlfriend, Connie Barnes, investigate and uncover, in addition to the murder, a plot to steal Hopi Indian sacred objects.
The Stolen Past
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Author : Karen Lange
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Stolen Past written by Karen Lange and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Archaeological thefts categories.
The Sacred Art Of Stealing
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Author : Christopher Brookmyre
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-06-16
The Sacred Art Of Stealing written by Christopher Brookmyre and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-16 with Fiction categories.
The second book in the Angelique De Xavier series, from author Christopher Brookmyre. Their eyes met across a crowded room. She was just a poor servant girl and he was the son of a rich industrialist. Er, no, this is a Christopher Brookmyre novel, although the eyes meeting across a crowded room part is true. Where it differs from the fairy tales is that the room in question was crowded with hostages and armed bank-robbers, and his eyes were the only part of him she could see behind the mask. He is an art-thief par excellence and she is a connoisseur of crooks. Her job is to hunt him to extinction; his is to avoid being caught and he also has a secret agenda more valuable than anything he might steal. There are risks he can take without jeopardising his plans. He can afford to play cat-and-mouse with the female cop who's on his tail; it might even arguably be necessary. What he can't afford is to let her get too close: he could could end up in jail or, even more scary, he could end up in love ...
The Stolen Bones Of St John Of Matha
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Author : A. Katie Harris
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2023-11-03
The Stolen Bones Of St John Of Matha written by A. Katie Harris and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-03 with History categories.
On the night of March 18, 1655, two Spanish friars broke into a church to steal the bones of the founder of their religious institution, the Order of the Most Holy Trinity. This book investigates this little-known incident of relic theft and the lengthy legal case that followed, together with the larger questions that surround the remains of saints in seventeenth-century Catholic Europe. Drawing on a wealth of manuscript and print sources from the era, A. Katie Harris uses the case of St. John of Matha’s stolen remains to explore the roles played by saints’ relics, the anxieties invested in them, their cultural meanings, and the changing modes of thought with which early modern Catholics approached them. While in theory a relic’s authenticity and identity might be proved by supernatural evidence, in practice early modern Church authorities often reached for proofs grounded in the material, human world—preferences that were representative of the standardizing and streamlining of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century saint-making. Harris examines how Matha’s advocates deployed material and documentary proofs, locating them within a framework of Scholastic concepts of individuation, identity, change, and persistence, and applying moral certainty to accommodate the inherent uncertainty of human evidence and relic knowledge. Engaging and accessible, The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha raises an array of important questions surrounding relic identity and authenticity in seventeenth-century Europe. It will be of interest to students, scholars, and casual readers interested in European history, religious history, material culture, and Renaissance studies.
The Sacred Body
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Author : Nicola Laneri
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2021-06-09
The Sacred Body written by Nicola Laneri and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-09 with Social Science categories.
The human body serves as a symbolic bridge between communities of the living and the divine. This is clearly evident in mythological stories that recount the creation of humans by deities within ancient and contemporaneous societies across a very broad geographical environment. In certain circumstances, parts of selected humans can become an ideal proxy for connecting with the supernatural, as demonstrated by the cult of human skulls in Near Eastern Neolithic communities, as well as the cult of relics of Christian saints from the early Christian era. To go deeper into this topic, this volume aims to undertake a cross-cultural investigation of the role played by both humans and human remains in creating forms of relationality with the divine in antiquity. Such an approach will highlight how the human body can be envisioned as part of a broader materialization of religious beliefs that is based on connecting different realms of materiality in the perception of the supernatural by communities of the living.
The Sacred Bones
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Author : Michael Byrnes
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008-10-15
The Sacred Bones written by Michael Byrnes and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-15 with Fiction categories.
At the crossroads of Christian, Islamic, and Jewish faiths, a priceless artifact is stolen from a vault hidden beneath Jerusalem's Temple Mount. With high stakes on sacred ground, time is running out . . . The violent theft leaves thirteen Israeli soldiers and policemen dead, the Palestinians up in arms over the desecration of sacred grounds, and the tension between the two groups dangerously high. Jerusalem is a stick of dynamite and the fuse has been lit . . . Meanwhile, in Vatican city, American scientist Charlotte Hennesey and Italian anthropologist Giovanni Bersei have been secretly summoned to analyse a mysterious artefact: the bones of a two-thousand-year-old unidentified, crucified man. Charlotte starts to wonder – could these be the bones of Jesus Christ? With the malevolent eye of Vatican security expert Salvatore Conte watching her every move, Charlotte must work against the clock. She knows that if the mortal remains of Christ are indeed in the burial box, there is a question to face: will the Vatican allow this information – and Charlotte – to see the light of day . . . Fast-paced and intelligent, blending historical fact with persuasive fiction, The Sacred Bones is an addictively compelling thriller, perfect for fans of Dan Brown. Following a conspiracy stretching back to the days of the Templar Knights to the shifting alliances of contemporary Middle Eastern politics, The Sacred Bones calls into question many of modern religion's most deeply-held beliefs.
Stolen Saint
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Author : WENDY. MEWES
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Stolen Saint written by WENDY. MEWES and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
Plundered Skulls And Stolen Spirits
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Author : Chip Colwell
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2019-10-07
Plundered Skulls And Stolen Spirits written by Chip Colwell and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-07 with Art categories.
"A fascinating account of both the historical and current struggle of Native Americans to recover sacred objects that have been plundered and sold to museums. Museum curator and anthropologist Chip Colwell asks the all-important question: Who owns the past? Museums that care for the objects of history or the communities whose ancestors made them?"--Provided by the publisher