Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of the Mona Lisa

ISBN-13: 9780307278388 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 256 str.

R. A. Scotti; R. a. Scotti

Opis

On August 21, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci s most celebrated painting vanished from the Louvre. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art.
The sensational disappearing act captured the world s imagination. Crowds stood in line to view the empty space on the museum wall. Thousands more waited, as concerned as if Mona Lisa were a missing person, for news of the lost painting. Almost a century later, questions still linger: Who really pinched Mona Lisa, and why? Part love story, part mystery, Vanished Smile reopens the puzzling case that transformed a Renaissance portrait into the most enduring icon of all time."