Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781586488000
Description: Presents a history of the world's most pilfered masterpiece--Jan van Eyck's "Ghent Alterpiece," treasured for its central panel, "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb"--which has been looted in three wars, burned, forged, smuggled, hunted by the Nazis, and stolen thirteen times.