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201) The Duke
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on a true story. Set in 1961 when Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 386 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The world was stunned when eighty-year old Cornelius Gurlitt became an international media superstar in November 2013 on the discovery of over 1,400 artworks in his 1,076 square-foot Munich apartment, valued at around $1.35 billion. Gurlitt became known as a man who never was - he didn't have a bank account, never paid tax, never received social security. He simply did not exist. He had been hard-wired into a life of shadows and secrecy by his own...
203) The grande odalisque
Author
Series
Grande Odalisque (Mulot) volume 1
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
124 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 x 24 cm
Language
English
205) Masterpiece
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Marvin lives with his family under the kitchen sink in the Pompadays' apartment. He is very much a beetle. James Pompaday lives with his family in New York City. He is very much an eleven-year-old boy.After James gets a pen-and-ink set for his birthday, Marvin surprises him by creating an elaborate miniature drawing. James gets all the credit for the picture and before these unlikely friends know it they are caught up in a staged art heist at the
...207) The rape of Europa
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Imagine the world without our masterpieces. Interviews with eyewitnesses and historians and newsreel footage show how during World War II the Nazis systematically took or destroyed the art of Europe. It follows the the heroic Europeans who first hid, and then set out to find and return what had been taken, with the help of the Allied forces "Monuments Men". It is work that continues to this day.
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2009, eighty-five-year-old art professor Ludka Zeilonka gets drawn into a political firestorm when her grandson, Tommy, is among a group of gay Massachusetts teachers fired for allegedly silencing Christian kids in high school classrooms. The ensuing battle to reinstate the teachers raises the specter of Ludka's World War II past--a past she's spent a lifetime trying to forget.
209) The hypnotist
Author
Series
Reincarnationist volume 3
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
210) The Monuments Men
Language
English
Formats
Description
An unlikely World War II platoon has been tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could they possibly succeed? But the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time and would risk their lives to protect some...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 454 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When Hitler's armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind's greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes--artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt--embarked from Naples on the tresure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars...
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Back Bay media tie-in edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 473 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"...In a race against time, a group of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others--called the Monuments Men--risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture. Focusing on the period between D-Day and V-E Day, this acclaimed book follows six Monument Men on their impossible mission to save the world's great art from the Nazis."--
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 321 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of art is integral to the story of the rise of Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler, an artist himself, was obsessed with art--in particular, the aesthetic of a purified regime, scoured of 'degenerate' influences that characterized Germany during the 1920s and 1930s. When they came to power in 1933, Hitler and Goebbels set their aesthetic vision into motion and removed degenerate art from German life: artists fled the country; museums were purged;...
Author
Publisher
Laurel Publishing
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
vi, 518 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"As commander of the German Luftwaffe and second only to Hitler in the Nazi Party, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering amassed both political power and a vast collection of confiscated artwork. [This] is the first study devoted to Goering's entire paintings collection, providing the only opportunity to look at the collection as a whole and evaluate its place within art collecting and the history of Nazi looting. This carefully documented catalogue, painstakingly...
215) Painted lady
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 198 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Maggie Sheridan is a semi-retired, former '60s rock singer. She seems resigned to a life lived on a crumbling country estate, ruminating about her past. Everything changes when a botched robbery leaves her friend Sir Charles Stafford dead and one of his prized pantings missing. Determined to retrieve the masterpiece and find the killer, Maggie plunges into the dark underworld of the art trade. Posing as a wealthy Polish countess, she sets off on a...
216) The thief collector
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1985, Willem de Kooning's oil painting Woman-Ochre vanished from the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson. The $160 million work of art remained missing until 2017, when it was found hanging in the former home of Jerry and Rita Alter, a deceased New Mexico married couple. The film features interviews with the Alters' family members and those involved in the painting's disappearance and recovery. The film also utilizes actors to stage reenactments...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 316 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the riveting true story of how an American college professor turned Army sleuth recovered cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich before they could become a rallying point in the creation of a Fourth and equally unholy Reich.
Author
Series
InvestiGators volume 1
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
201 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When rare paintings go missing, the InvestiGators are called on the scene...the ART SCENE! Mango and Brash go undercover and under canvas as internationally renowned painters to expose a crook who has truly mastered the art of CRIME! Can they recover the missing masterpieces and save the city art museum's fundraising gala before it's too late...and they run out of appetizers? Find out in this latest pièce de résistance of action-packed illustrated...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A friend in his cigar club asks Antoine to visit René Rouquet, a retired postal worker who has found a rolled-up canvas in his apartment. As the apartment once belonged to Cézanne, Rouquet is convinced he's discovered a treasure. But when Antoine arrives at the apartment, he finds René dead, the canvas missing, and a mysterious art history professor standing over the body. When the painting is finally recovered, the mystery only deepens. The brushwork...
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