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The vanishing Velázquez : a 19th century bookseller's obsession with a lost masterpiece

text The vanishing Velázquez : a 19th century bookseller's obsession with a lost masterpiece

Cumming, Laura

Summary
From one of the world's most expert art critics, the incredible true story--part art history and part mystery--of a Velazquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it. When John ... Read more
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... Read more
Format
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Description
viii, 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Publisher
Scribner 2016
MARC Permalink

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 700 CUM in Adult Non-fiction Available

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