Lost masterpieces
Item details
- ISBN: 9780744056358
- ISBN: 0744056357
- ISBN: 9780241536421
- ISBN: 0241536421
- ISBN: 9780241607770
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Physical Description:
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192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm - Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : DK Publishing, 2022
- Copyright: ©2022
Contents / Notes
General Note: | Subtitle on cover: Stolen, damaged, mislaid, destroyed - the world's most elusive works of art. "Produced for DK by Toucan Books"--Title page verso. Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Lost: The tomb of King Tuankhamen ; Aphrodite of Knidos ; The terra-cotta army ; The Alexander mosaic ; China's guardian beasts ; The Tabula Rogeriana ; Salvatori Mundi ; Fondaco dei Tedeschi ; The Sistine tapestries ; Lucretia ; Zodiac fountain water clock ; Anna Feodorovna ; The death of Cleopatra ; Modern woman ; The battle of San Jacinto ; Red and green II ; Reclining nude ; December in Venice ; The Reaper ; The wounded table ; Struggle : from the history of the American people ; Life's work ; Untitled gouache ; The Lenin mosaic ; Touching north -- Stolen: Mexican antiquities ; The book of Kells ; The Ghent altarpiece ; The last judgment ; Mona Lisa ; St. Christopher carrying the Christ Child ; The Benin bronzes ; Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence ; The head of a bearded man ; Adam and Eve ; The Isabella Stewart Gardner heist ; Lioness and Lion in a cave ; Les choristes ; Funerary pole ; Summer's day ; View of the sea at Scheveningen ; The gates of hell ; Portraits of Adele ; Swamp legend ; Reading girl in white and yellow ; Myrto ; Portrait of Francis Bacon ; Two forms (divided circle) ; Wine of Babylon ; Camouflage series ; Chloe & Emma -- Damaged: Nineveh's Lamassu ; Parthenon marbles ; The Portland vase ; Sutton Hoo helmet ; Statue of Vishnu ; The Bayeux tapestry ; Frescoes of the lives of St. Francis and the saints ; Pietà ; The night watch ; The Rokeby Venus ; The dream ; Yellow pumpkin ; Niagara Falls -- Destroyed: The Buddhas of Bamiyan ; The justice of Trajan and Herkinbald ; Equestrian portrait of Emperor Philip IV ; The amber room ; The last moments of Michel Lepeletier ; Religion attended by the virtues ; The stone breakers ; Washington crossing the Delaware ; Beneath the blue room ; Water lilies ; Man at the crossroads ; Three works ; Lift every voice and sing (the harp) ; Portrait of Winston Churchill ; Figurative work ; Reclining figure ; Everyone I have ever slept with ; Dropping a Han Dynasty urn ; Pillar of shame ; Love is in the bin. |
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Subject: | Art treasures in war Art Mutilation, defacement, etc Art History Lost works of art Art thefts Œuvres d'art perdues Vol d'objets d'art Art thefts Lost works of art |
Genre: | History. History. |
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Oconee Regional Library System: Laurens County Library |
709 COLL (
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31040001489045 | NONFIC | Available | |
Statesboro Regional Library: Bryan County Library, Richmond Hill |
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31053003324250 | ADULT | Available |