The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums
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 auth…
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Weitere Autoren: Todeschini, Cecilia
- ISBN: 978-1-58648-438-5
- EAN: 9781586484385
- Produktnummer: 17529853
- Verlag: Publicaffairs
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 407 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B16.2 cm x D3.1 cm 395 g
- Gewicht: 395
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Peter Watson writes for the New York Times and has written weekly columns on the art market for the London Sunday Times, Observer and Evening Standard. In June 1997, he was appointed Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Caravaggio Conspiracy, From Manet to Manhattan,and Sotheby's: The Inside Story. 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.
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