The Mona Lisa vanishes :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Random House Studio, [2023]
Summary
"A narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world-and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all"--
Call Number
TEEN SUMMER READING 2024
Publication Date
2023
Language
English
ISBN
9780593643846 9780593643853
The Mona Lisa vanishes
Author
Format:
Electronic Resources
Physical Description
1 audio media player (04:53:38) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Production / Publication Information
Solon, Ohio : Playaway Products, LLC, [2023]
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 world--and 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 thieves--and detectives--of 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 Lisa--the most famous painting in the world should never have existed at all. Here is a middle-grade nonfiction, with black-and-white illustrations by Brett Helquist throughout, written at the pace of a thriller, shot through with stories of crime and celebrity, genius and beauty.
Call Number
J PLAYAWAY DAY
Publication Date
2023
Language
English
ISBN
9798822676909 9780593747629
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