THE STOLEN MASTERPIECES

10 Art Crimes That Robbed the World of Its Treasures

von Tommy Yeo

284 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOMETHING PRICELESS ENTERS A WORLD WHERE EVERYTHING HAS A PRICE?A masterpiece can be recognised everywhere-and sold almost nowhere. Yet thieves have cut paintings from frames, climbed museum walls, crossed rooftops, silenced alarms, and carried away objects nations believed untouchable.The Stolen Masterpieces enters the hidden world of ten extraordinary art crimes. It follows the disappearance of the Mona Lisa, the unsolved theft of The Just Judges, the strange removal of Goya's Portrait of the Duke of Wellington, and the enduring mystery surrounding Caravaggio's missing Nativity.The investigation continues through Mexico's stolen archaeological treasures, the theft of Munch's The Scream, two Van Goghs carried over a museum wall, the Green Vault jewel robbery, the vanished Kunsthal paintings, and Canada's legendary Skylight Caper.These are not merely stories about daring criminals. They reveal fragile institutions, security failures, ransom demands, criminal networks, damaged artworks, patient investigators, and the empty spaces left when private greed steals from public memory.Some treasures returned. Others remain lost. Every theft changed the story of the work-and the world that failed to protect it.THE CRIMES THAT DEFINED HISTORYTrue crimes. Broken systems. Turning points that changed the world.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798173922441
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published