The Vanishing of the Mona Lisa by Caparros, Martin
The Vanishing of the Mona Lisa by Caparros, Martin

The Vanishing of the Mona Lisa

Now in paperback, The Vanishing of the Mona Lisa is a captivating fictionalization of the greatest art...
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Author: Martin Caparros
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Language: English
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The Vanishing of the Mona Lisa by Caparros, Martin

The Vanishing of the Mona Lisa

$33.20
The Vanishing of the Mona Lisa by Caparros, Martin

The Vanishing of the Mona Lisa

$33.20
Author: Martin Caparros
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Now in paperback, The Vanishing of the Mona Lisa is a captivating fictionalization of the greatest art theft of the twentieth century.

On August 22, 1911, the world was shocked by an unthinkable crime: Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, disappeared from the walls of the Louvre. While artists such as Picasso and Apollinaire were suspected of the theft, no arrests were made. Two years later an Italian, Vincenzo Peruggia, was detained when trying to sell the Mona Lisa to an antiques dealer in Florence--but the mystery of the theft itself was never satisfactorily resolved.

Fifteen years later, someone calling himself "the Marquis de Valfierno" cannot tolerate dying without the world knowing of his audacious exploits. And so, he decides to confide his life story to an American journalist: from his impoverished migr origins as the son of a servant woman in Buenos Aires to his rise as the most dangerous conman in the world. Through a series of remarkable but evolving masks of identity, beginning as a marginal criminal of Argentina's lower depths and ending up a wealthy aristocrat of the Belle poque, first in Buenos Aires, then in Paris, he slowly transforms himself into "Valfierno." Only then is he prepared to undertake the unthinkable, his own "masterpiece" of the criminal arts.

Author: Martin Caparros
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 03/08/2011
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780743297950

About the Author

Martín Caparrós has worked for twenty-five years as a journalist for print, radio, and television. He has traveled through more than sixty countries and is the author of multiple memoirs and travelogues. He currently lives in his native Argentina.
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