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Author:

Day, Nick (Nicholas), author. 235346

Title:

The Mona Lisa vanishes : a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity / Nicholas Day, Brett Helquist.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Random House Studio,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Leonardo,--da Vinci,--1452-1519.--Mona Lisa--Juvenile literature.
Art thefts--Paris--Paris--Juvenile literature.

Other Authors:

Helquist, Brett, illustrator. 44795

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-270) and index.

Contents:

A star is born -- She's gone -- Tell me, tell me, tell me -- The Mona Lisa is nowhere, the Mona Lisa is everywhere -- Everything that is possible to do -- The consummate professional -- Marry or else -- Gigantic figures in human shape -- An improbable series of improbable events -- A wild and perfect pair -- A dangerous woman -- My name is Leonard -- The afterlife.

Summary:

"A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the worldand how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all. On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, cest partie! The Mona Lisa, shes gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? Travel back to an extraordinary period of revolutionary change: turn-of-the-century Paris. Walk its backstreets. Meet the infamous thievesand detectivesof the era. And then slip back further in time and follow Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the Mona Lisa, through his dazzling, wondrously weird life. Discover the secret at the heart of the Mona Lisathe most famous painting in the world should never have existed at all."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0593643844
9780593643846

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1356890669

LCCN:

2023017551

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