(Download pdf ebook) The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities--From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums
✿ Peter Watson, Cecilia Todeschini ✿
| #1330873 in Books | PublicAffairs | 2006-04-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.29 x7.24 x9.50l, | File Name: 1586484028 | 408 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Timothy T. Lynster|Very engrossing|1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating story. . . .|By carolyn h. williams|Subject is fascinating, and book is well researched. Writing, however, is disappointing. Too many sentences begin with "there is" or "there are," word "great" is exhausted throug|From Publishers Weekly|In light of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's recent decision to return a rare—and by the Italian government's contention, stolen—vase painted by the Greek master Euphronios, Watson and Todeschini's colorful account of Giacomo
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 netw... [PDF.hh25] The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities--From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums Rating: 3.72 (583 Votes)
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