Stealing the Mystic Lamb
Delivers a gripping 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, ransomed, rescued by Austrian double-agents and stolen 13 times. By the author of The Art Thief.
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