Museum of the Missing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Museum of the Missing write by Simon Houpt. This book was released on 2006. Museum of the Missing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher description
Stealing Rembrandts
Stealing Rembrandts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stealing Rembrandts write by Anthony M. Amore. This book was released on 2011-07-05. Stealing Rembrandts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg's Stealing Rembrandts is a spellbinding journey into the high-stakes world of art theft Today, art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, exceeding $6 billion in losses to galleries and art collectors annually. And the masterpieces of Rembrandt van Rijn are some of the most frequently targeted. In Stealing Rembrandts, art security expert Anthony M. Amore and award-winning investigative reporter Tom Mashberg reveal the actors behind the major Rembrandt heists in the last century. Through thefts around the world - from Stockholm to Boston, Worcester to Ohio - the authors track daring entries and escapes from the world's most renowned museums. There are robbers who coolly walk off with multimillion dollar paintings; self-styled art experts who fall in love with the Dutch master and desire to own his art at all costs; and international criminal masterminds who don't hesitate to resort to violence. They also show how museums are thwarted in their ability to pursue the thieves - even going so far as to conduct investigations on their own, far away from the maddening crowd of police intervention, sparing no expense to save the priceless masterpieces. Stealing Rembrandts is an exhilarating, one-of-a-kind look at the black market of art theft, and how it compromises some of the greatest treasures the world has ever known.
Stolen
Stolen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stolen write by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. This book was released on 2018-04-30. Stolen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stolen provides the context to the brazen heist that left the Gardner museum in search of its lost masterpieces.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum write by Boston, Mass. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. This book was released on 1995-01-01. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book takes you through the collection gallery by gallery, illuminating the art and installations in each room"--From preface.
Stealing the Show
Stealing the Show - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stealing the Show write by John Barelli. This book was released on 2019-08-22. Stealing the Show available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When he retired as the chief security officer of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Barelli had spent the better part of forty years responsible not only for one of the richest treasure troves on the planet, but the museum’s staff, the millions of visitors, as well as American presidents, royalty, and heads of state from around the world. For the first time, John Barelli shares his experiences of the crimes that occurred on his watch; the investigations that captured thieves and recovered artwork; the lessons he learned and shared with law enforcement professionals in the United States and abroad; the accidents and near misses; and a few mysteries that were sadly never solved. He takes readers behind the scenes at the Met, introduces curators and administrators, walks the empty corridors after hours, and shares what it’s like to get the call that an ancient masterpiece has gone missing. The Metropolitan Museum covers twelve acres in the heart of Manhattan and is filled with five thousand years of work by history’s great artists known and unknown: Goya, da Vinci, Rembrandt, Warhol, Pollack, Egyptian mummies, Babylonian treasures, Colonial crafts, and Greek vases. John and a small staff of security professionals housed within the Museum were responsible for all of it. Over the years, John helped make the museum the state-of-the-art facility it is today and created a legacy in art security for decades to come. Focusing on six thefts but filled with countless stories that span the late 1970s on into the 21st century, John opens the files on thefts, shows how museum personnel along with local and sometimes Federal Agents opened investigations and more often than not caught the thief. But of ultimate importance was the recovery of the artwork, including Celtic and Egyptian gold, French tapestries, Greek sculpture, and more. At the heart of this book there will always be art—those who love it and those who take it, two groups of people that are far from mutually exclusive.
