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Author:

Cumming, Laura, author.

Title:

The vanishing Velázquez : a 19th century bookseller's obsession with a lost masterpiece / Laura Cumming.

Publisher:

Scribner,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

viii, 296 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Snare, John--Art.--Art.
Velázquez, Diego,--1599-1660--Appreciation.
Booksellers and bookselling--Reading.--Reading.
Portrait painting--Attribution.

Other Titles:

Vanishing man

Notes:

Originally published in Great Britain in 2016 as The vanishing man.

Contents:

A discovery -- The painting -- The painter -- Minister Street -- Man in black -- The talk of London -- A man in full -- the attack -- The theater of life -- Seizure and theft -- The trial -- The escape -- Velázquez on Broadway -- The escape artist -- The vanishing -- Seeing is believing -- The ghost of a picture -- An infinite number of Charleses -- Lost and found -- Saved.

Summary:

Describes the true story of a provincial bookseller who discovered an incredible portrait of King Charles I at a liquidation auction and his lifelong quest to prove it was painted by Diego Velazquez.

ISBN:

147676218X (trade paper)
9781476762180 (trade paper)
1476762155 (hardcover)
9781476762159 (hardcover)

LCCN:

2015040220

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YUPD232 -- DeWitt Community Library (De Witt)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)