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Author Collins, Michael, author.

Title Lost masterpieces : stolen, damaged, mislaid, destroyed— the world's most elusive works of art / Michael Collins.

Edition First American edition.
Publication Info. New York, NY : DK Publishing, [2022].
©2022
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3000114~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  709 COL    AVAILABLE
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Description 192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents Lost -- Stolen -- Damaged -- Destroyed.
Summary "Travel back in time to discover works of art that have vanished from the record, as well as those that went missing and have since been reclaimed or recovered. From the treasures of Tutankhamun to the altarpiece of Ghent, a missing Faberǧ egg, and Vincent van Gogh's majestic Sunset at Montmajour, numerous masterpieces have disappeared throughout history as a result of theft, looting, natural catastrophe, or conflict … And some have resurfaced decades or even centuries later!" -- Description provided by publisher.
Subject Art treasures in war.
Art -- Mutilation, defacement, etc.
Art -- History.
Lost works of art.
Art thefts.
Added Author Reid, Emma Fraser, illustrator.
ISBN 9780241536421 (hardcover)
0241536421 (hardcover)
9780744056358 (hardcover)
0744056357 (hardcover)
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