Cecilia Todeschini: The Medici Conspiracy

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Cover: 9781586484385 | The Medici Conspiracy | Cecilia Todeschini (u. a.) | Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the vases, however, is the discovery of the smuggler's card index detailing his deals and dealers. It reveals the existence of a web of tombaroli ,tomb raiders, who steal classical artifacts, and a network of dealers and smugglers who spirit them out of Italy and into the hands of wealthy collectors and museums. Peter Watson, a former investigative journalist for the London Sunday Times and author of two previous exposés of art world scandals, names the key figures in this network that has depleted Europe's classical artifacts. Among the loot are the irreplaceable and highly collectable vases of Euphronius, the equivalent in their field of the sculpture of Bernini or the painting of Michelangelo. The narrative leads to the doors of some major institutions: Sothebys, the Getty Museum in L.A., the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York among them. Filled with great characters and human drama, The Medici Conspiracy authoritatively exposes another shameful round in one of the oldest games in the world: theft, smuggling and duplicitous dealing, all in the name of art.

Über den Autor

Peter Watson is a journalist, television presenter and historian of intellectual movements. He has written for the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, the Times, the Sunday Times, the New York Times, and the Spectator. His books include The Modern Mind; Ideas: A History from Fire to Freud; and The German Genius; The Age of Atheists; and Convergence -- and he has been published in twenty-six countries.

Cecilia Todeschini is a researcher and translator who has worked for the BBC, ITV, CBS, ABC, and NBC. She has covered papal conclaves as well as the great mafia trials in Italy among many other subjects.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2007
Genre:	Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Allgemeine Kunst
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	448
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781586484385
ISBN-10:	1586484389
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Todeschini, Cecilia Watson, Peter
Hersteller:	PublicAffairs,U.S.
Maße:	210 x 162 x 31 mm
Von/Mit:	Cecilia Todeschini (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	12.06.2007
Gewicht:	0,395 kg

preigu-id: 121038761

Über den Autor

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2007
Genre:	Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Allgemeine Kunst
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	448
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781586484385
ISBN-10:	1586484389
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Todeschini, Cecilia Watson, Peter
Hersteller:	PublicAffairs,U.S.
Maße:	210 x 162 x 31 mm
Von/Mit:	Cecilia Todeschini (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	12.06.2007
Gewicht:	0,395 kg