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Vanished Smile
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Author : R. A. Scotti
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2009
Vanished Smile written by R. A. Scotti and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Art thefts categories.
Part love story, part mystery, "Vanished Smile" reopens the case of the most audacious and perplexing art theft ever committed--the theft of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" from the Paris Louvre on August 21, 1911.
Vanished Smile
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Author : R.A. Scotti
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2009-04-07
Vanished Smile written by R.A. Scotti and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-07 with Art categories.
On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French detectives using the latest methods of criminology, including fingerprinting, tried to trace the thieves, a burgeoning international media hyped news of the heist. No story captured the imagination of the world quite like this one. Thousands flocked to the Louvre to see the empty space where the painting had hung. They mourned as if Mona Lisa were a lost loved one, left flowers and notes, and set new attendance records. For more than two years, Mona Lisa’s absence haunted the art world, provoking the question: Was she lost forever? A century later, questions still linger. Part love story, part mystery, Vanished Smile reopens the case of the most audacious and perplexing art theft ever committed. R. A. Scotti’s riveting, ingeniously realized account is itself a masterly portrait of a world in transition. Combining her skills as a historian and a novelist, Scotti turns the tantalizing clues into a story of the painting’s transformation into the most familiar and lasting icon of all time.
The Vanishing Smile
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Author : Earl Emerson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
The Vanishing Smile written by Earl Emerson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with categories.
The Stolen Smile
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Author : J. Patrick Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Creative Editions
Release Date : 2015-03-17
The Stolen Smile written by J. Patrick Lewis and has been published by Creative Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-17 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
J. Patrick Lewis and Gary Kelley take readers back to 1911 -- to the city of Paris, where history's most famous portrait, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, has gone missing from the Louvre Museum. As France laments the loss of its most treasured masterpiece, a zealous Italian watches with amusement, for he alone knows the truth behind the mystery of the vanished lady with the peculiar smile. Lewis's words, narrated by the proud thief himself, tell the spirited tale, while Kelley's illustrations masterfully depict each turnof the unfolding drama. Based on true events, The Stolen Smile is the story of a hopeful hero and one painting's powerful spell.
Clydesdale Poems
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Author : Peter Carmichael (stationmaster.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
Clydesdale Poems written by Peter Carmichael (stationmaster.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with categories.
Glimpses Of Unfamiliar Japan
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Author : Lafcadio Hearn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Glimpses Of Unfamiliar Japan written by Lafcadio Hearn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Americans categories.
The Vanished Birds
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Author : Simon Jimenez
language : en
Publisher: Titan Books
Release Date : 2020-08-18
The Vanished Birds written by Simon Jimenez and has been published by Titan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-18 with Fiction categories.
Bold, lyrical and imaginative, this space opera is a must for fans of Becky Chambers and Alastair Reynolds Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through the stars are condensed into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. The captain of a transport ship contracted to the Umbrai corporation, she lives only for the next paycheck, until the day she meets a mysterious boy, fallen from the sky. A boy, broken by his past, and hunted by his present. For he is one of the few born with the gift of the Jaunt. The ability to travel instantly anywhere in the universe. An ability that threatens the vicelike control of the settled worlds by corporations such as Umbrai. Fumiko Nakajima, the great scientist responsible for the design of bird-like Stations that Umbrai uses to control vast tracts of space, has been searching for one such as he for a thousand years. Together, they set out to protect the boy, a journey that will cross the decades and light years all the way out to the fringes of settled space where the laws of civilisation do not apply, and they will have only each other to rely on.
Do Sleeping Dogs Lie
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Author : Gwyneth Steddy
language : en
Publisher: Diamond Books Ltd
Release Date : 2022-04-26
Do Sleeping Dogs Lie written by Gwyneth Steddy and has been published by Diamond Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-26 with Fiction categories.
Retired DI, Malcolm Bell, is bored. A chance meeting with a retired couple gives him the purpose he was looking for – investigating a cold case, which for him, is unfinished business. He sets out to uncover the truth behind the murder of a man supposedly killed by terrorists in Tyrone in 1988. The more he uncovers, the more dangerous life becomes for him and those closest to him. Aided by a host of unlikely allies, Malcolm must navigate the brutal complexities of the past and their impact on the present. But has he bitten off more than he can chew?
Quita
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Author : Cecil Dunstan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Quita written by Cecil Dunstan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with English fiction categories.
The Lost Mona Lisa
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Author : R A Scotti
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-11-10
The Lost Mona Lisa written by R A Scotti and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-10 with History categories.
In the late afternoon of Sunday, 20 August 1911, three men strolled into the Louvre museum in Paris. Disguising themselves as museum staff they hid until nightfall. Sixteen hours later the most famous painting in the world, the Mona Lisa, had vanished. The theft of the Mona Lisa was the greatest crime ever to hit the art world. France closed her borders, a massive man-hunt was launched, even Picasso was a suspect - but all to no avail, the Mona Lisa had gone...until two years later when a letter arrived in Florence signed 'Leonardo'; the painting was for sale. The Lost Mona Lisa uncovers the truth behind the 'crime of the century'. It is a story to rival the best detective fiction - a story of audacious thieves, art forgers, shadowy conmen, millionaire collectors, a global manhunt, and the most beautiful and enigmatic woman in the world, Mona Lisa Gioconda.