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Cafferty and Quinn novels volume 1
Description
"It was stolen from a New Orleans grave-the centuries-old bust of an evil man, a demonic man. One day, its current owner shows up at Danni Cafferty's antiques shop on Royal Street, the shop she inherited from her father. But before Danni can buy the statue, it disappears, the owner is found dead...and Danni discovers that she's inherited much more than she realized. Michael Quinn, former cop and now private investigator, is a man with an unusual past....
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xiii, 300 p. ; 25 cm.
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Visiting Florence to study art history and finish her thesis on the lost works of Michelangelo, American student Kate Westcott befriends Italian student Marco. They discover three missing sculptures, only to be violently targeted by a master art thief.
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 23
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"Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West"--
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"For years, there have been whispers that, before his death, Van Gogh completed a final self-portrait. Curators and art historians have savored this rumor, hoping it could illuminate some of the troubled artist's many secrets, but even they have to concede that the missing painting is likely lost forever. But when Luke Perrone, artist and great-grandson of the man who stole the Mona Lisa, and Alexis Verde, daughter of a notorious art thief, discover...
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A famed Oxford historian is found dead in his study one night, all evidence pointing to his son, Stephen, who was about to be disinherited from the family fortune. When Stephen's fingerprints are found on the murder weapon, his guilt seems undeniable--but then, the revelation that the deceased man was involved in a deadly hunt for a priceless relic in Northern France at the end of World War II lends credence to Stephen's innocence.
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
360 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Fred Kline is a well-known art historian, dealer, connoisseur, and explorer who has made a career of scouring antique stores, estate sales, and auctions looking for unusual?and often misidentified?works of art. Many of the gems he has found are now in major museum collections like the Frick, the Getty, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But this book is about the discovery of one piece in particular: About ten years ago, when Kline was routinely...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"After talking her way into a job with Dan Mansfield, the leading investigative reporter in Chicago, rising young journalist Jules Roth is given an unusual--and very secret--assignment. Dan needs her to locate a painting stolen by the Nazis more than 75 years earlier: legendary Expressionist artist Ernst Engel's most famous work, Woman on Fire. World-renowned shoe designer Ellis Baum wants this portrait of a beautiful, mysterious woman for deeply...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of the discovery of the most expensive painting by Leonardo da Vinci ever sold, The Salvator Mundi, discussing the questions around its authenticity and how the hidden agendas and vested interests of art collectors and art institutions make finding the truth about it of secondary importance.
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