The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
By: Edward Dolnick
3.50
Format: None pages,
Tijdens de Duitse bezetting van Nederland heeft Han van Meegeren fortuin gemaakt met het vervalsen …
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1. The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
By: Lynn H. Nicholas
3.92
Format: 498 pages, Paperback
The story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on… read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- world war ii
- nonfiction
2. The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
By: Robert M. Edsel , Bret Witter
3.80
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were method… read more
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- art history
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"The skilled observer, not the machine, was the essence of conservation."-Robert M. Edsel, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
"Here, Mortimer Wheeler thought, is power. And a reminder of our mortality."-Robert M. Edsel, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
"But he had sold his soul, and that is something you can never repurchase at any price."-Robert M. Edsel, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
"I think we got some work done, back at the start, because nobody knew us, nobody bothered us - and we had no money."-Robert M. Edsel, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
3. The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present
By: Eric R. Kandel
4.21
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, … read more
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- art
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- nonfiction
4. The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
By: Robert Lacey , Danny Danziger
3.87
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
As the Shadow of the Millennium Descended Across England and Christendom, it Seemed as if the World… read more
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"of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious"-Robert Lacey, The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
5. The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures
By: Philip Mould
3.75
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
The art world has never seemed quite so treacherous, so beguiling- and so much fun What separates … read more
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6. Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
By: Laney Salisbury , Aly Sujo
3.95
Format: 768 pages,
When the talented but struggling artist John Myatt put a small advert for genuine fakes in Private … read more
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- true crime
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7. The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
By: Edward Dolnick
3.50
Format: None pages,
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- true crime
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- crime
8. The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
By: Anthony M. Amore
4.17
Format: 78 pages, Hardcover
Art scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution h… read more
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9. Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists
By: Anthony M. Amore , Tom Mashberg
4.10
Format: 224 pages,
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- true crime
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10. The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
By: Anne-Marie O'Connor
3.90
Format: 205 pages,
The Lady in Gold, considered an unforgettable masterpiece, one of the twentieth century's most reco… read more
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- art
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11. Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
By: Ross King
4.07
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings… read more
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12. Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History
By: Bridget Quinn
4.04
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with th… read more
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13. The Muralist
By: B.A. Shapiro
5.00
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
From the author of theNew York Times bestsellerThe Art Forgercomes a thrilling new novel of art, hi… read more
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14. The Story of Painting
By: Wendy Beckett , Patricia Wright
4.00
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
Featuring over 450 masterpieces, this best-selling book includes more than 150 oversized details fr… read more
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15. Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures
By: John Shiffman , Robert K. Wittman
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Wall Street Journal called him "a living legend." The London Times dubbed him "the most famous … read more
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16. The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
By: Joel F. Harrington
4.34
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary story of a Renaissance-era executioner and his world, based on a rare and overloo… read more
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17. The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
By: None
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Boser cracks the cold case of the art world's greatest unsolved mystery." --Vanity Fair "The True … read more
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18. Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
By: Ross King
3.26
Format: None pages,
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19. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By: Patrick Bringley
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more
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- nonfiction
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
20. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By: Michael Finkel
3.97
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more
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- true crime
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"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
21. Sacré Bleu
By: Christopher Moore
3.79
Format: 421 pages, Kindle Edition
“Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of that word.” —Carl Hiassen “[Mo… read more
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"Whistler,' Manet called. 'How's your mother?"-Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu
"Maman reserves her stormy side for her family,"-Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu
"That's a horrible plan." "Yes, but I have chosen to ignore that."-Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu
"Apologies, one loses perspective after spending a week in a brothel."-Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu
