Vanished Smile : The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa

from JBD1

A decent overview of the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, intermingled with a look back at the painting's biography and the lives of those associated with it. Scotti discusses how Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire got caught up in the case, and evaluates a 1937 Saturday Evening Post s...

from Meggo

Around the turn of the century, the Mona Lisa disappeared from the Louvre, only to reappear years later. Well researched, this book recounts the national scandal, and the mystery, along with some of the key players. What this book does not do, is reveal what actually happened to the painting on h...

from Meggo

Around the turn of the century, the Mona Lisa disappeared from the Louvre, only to reappear years later. Well researched, this book recounts the national scandal, and the mystery, along with some of the key players. What this book does not do, is reveal what actually happened to the painting on h...

from keristars

Well. I don't know. I'm interested in forgeries and plagiarism and how cultural things attain perceived value - art, music, and so on. One of my co-workers lent me Vanished Smile in exchanged for me loaning her Forged: How Fakes Are the Great Art of Our Age, after I mentioned my interest (and we ...

from dianaleez

Leonardo's 'Mona Lisa' is perhaps the most famous painting in the world, and it is therefore difficult for the modern reader to imagine it disappearing from the Louvre without anyone noticing. But it did. And thereby hangs an interesting tale. Or would, if all the facts of the theft were known. U...