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Vanished Smile audiobook
- By: R.A. Scotti
- Narrator: Kathe Mazur
- Category: Art, Popular Culture
- Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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Vanished Smile Audiobook Summary
On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French detectives using the latest methods of criminology, including fingerprinting, tried to trace the thieves, a burgeoning international media hyped news of the heist.
No story captured the imagination of the world quite like this one. Thousands flocked to the Louvre to see the empty space where the painting had hung. They mourned as if Mona Lisa were a lost loved one, left flowers and notes, and set new attendance records. For more than two years, Mona Lisa’s absence haunted the art world, provoking the question: Was she lost forever? A century later, questions still linger.
Part love story, part mystery, Vanished Smile reopens the case of the most audacious and perplexing art theft ever committed. R. A. Scotti’s riveting, ingeniously realized account is itself a masterly portrait of a world in transition. Combining her skills as a historian and a novelist, Scotti turns the tantalizing clues into a story of the painting’s transformation into the most familiar and lasting icon of all time.
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Vanished Smile Full Details
| Narrator | Kathe Mazur |
| Length | 6 hours 43 minutes |
| Author | R.A. Scotti |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 27, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780739381816 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Vanished Smile is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: art books for coffee table, fine art, Picasso, Pablo Picasso, paris, france, gifts for travelers, museums, Louvre, the Louvre, painting, da Vinci, Leonardo da Vinci, world history, european history, betrayal, hoaxes, con artists, conspiracy, culture, pop culture, art teacher gifts, gifts for artists, arts, artwork, art book, art books, artists, art history, art, mona lisa, criminals, mugger, robber, true crime book, criminal psychology, criminology books, true crime gifts, crime books, true crime books, crime, true crime, thief, theft, Art, Popular Culture, True Crime, Hoaxes & Deceptions, Art, European The BISAC Subject Code is Art, Popular Culture
Additional info
The publisher of the Vanished Smile is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780739381816.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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