Stealing the show
Subtitle: a history of art and crime in six thefts
By: John Barelli ; with Zachary Schisgal
Contributors: Schisgal, Zachary, author
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Guilford, Connecticut
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781493038244
Subjects: Art thefts; Art thieves; Theft from museums; Criminal investigation; Art: History / General; True Crime: Heists & Robberies; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Description: This book tells the previously untold stories of six major art thefts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, written by its former Chief Security Officer, John Barelli. Reader will be taken into the loading docks and curatorial offices, to the Temple of Dendur and the American Wing and its magnificent Engelhard Courtyard, the majestic Main Hall where the author stood opening many mornings as the world poured in, the Astor Courtyard and the Valez Blanco Patio. In the museum's Arms and Armor department the author will point out that museum staff helped create the helmets that our soldiers u.
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Table of contents: title: Intro; Introduction; Chapter One: Be My Valentine; Chapter Two: A King's Ransom; Chapter Three: Celtic Gold Trail and the Road to Recovery; Chapter Four: So You Want to Be an Art Thief; Chapter Five: The Magic Carpet Ride; Chapter Six: Opportunity Strikes; Chapter Seven: The Art of Protecting Heads of State; Chapter Eight: A Piece of the Met; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Bibliography