Stealing the Mystic Lamb
Jan van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece is on any art historian’s list of the ten most important paintings ever made. Often referred to by the subject of its central panel, The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, it represents
the fulcrum between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. 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, illegally sold, censored, hidden, attacked by iconoclasts, hunted by
the Nazis and Napoleon, used as a diplomatic tool, ransomed, rescued by Austrian double-agents, and stolen a total of thirteen times.
In this fast-paced, real-life thriller, art historian Noah Charney unravels the stories of each of these thefts. In the process, he illuminates the whole fascinating history of art crime, and the psychological, i
deological, religious, political, and social motivations that have led many men to covet this one masterpiece above all others.
AUTOR: NOAH CHARNEY es un historiador y escritor americano natural de New Haven (Connecticut 1979). Sus padres, un psiquiatra y una profesora de Yale, compartían una gran admiración por Europa y
durante su infancia la familia viajó todos los veranos a Francia.
Se graduó en Historia del Arte y Literatura Inglesa en la Universidad de Calby, en Maine. Pasó un año en Londres estudiando teatro y obtuvo sendos másteres en la escuela Coultaud y en la Universidad de Oxford.
Prosiguió sus estudios en Cambridge donde consiguió un máster en Historia del Arte, y en la Universidad de Liubliana, donde se doctoró en la materia.
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