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Stealing Rembrandts Anthony M. Amore

Stealing Rembrandts By Anthony M. Amore

Stealing Rembrandts by Anthony M. Amore


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Summary

Art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world. Stealing Rembrandts reveals the actors behind the major art heists of the Dutch Master in the last century, tracking daring entries into and escapes from the world's most renowned museums, and robbers who coolly walk off with multimillion dollar paintings.

Stealing Rembrandts Summary

Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists by Anthony M. Amore

Art security expert Anthony M. Amore and award-winning investigative reporter Tom Mashberg reveal the actors behind the major Rembrandt heists in the last century. Through thefts around the world - from Stockholm to Boston - the authors track daring entries and escapes from the world's most renowned museums. There are robbers who coolly walk off with multimillion dollar paintings; self-styled art experts who fall in love with the Dutch master and desire to own his art at all costs; and international criminal masterminds who don't hesitate to resort to violence.

About Anthony M. Amore

Anthony M. Amore is the head of security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and contributes to The Boston Herald and The Huffington Post. He serves as trustee of the Association for Research into Crimes against Art and lectures widely on art crime. Tom Mashberg is an award-winning investigative reporter and the former Sunday editor for The Boston Herald. During his 30-year career he has reported for The New York Times and The Boston Globe, as well as writing for Vanity Fair and many other publications. He was called the quintessential newspaperman by FOX-TV's America's Most Wanted.

Table of Contents

Authors' Forewords Introduction: Why Rembrandt? There Is No 'Dr. No' Smeared with Blood: The 1972 Worcester Heist The Take-Away Rembrandt Snafu in Cincinnati: 1973 Wolves at the Door: Heists from Homes Devil's Bargain: The MFA Heist 2000: The Stockholm Blitz The Rembrandt That Wasn't Rembrandt's Stolen Etchings Epilogue: Our Debt to Rembrandt Target Rembrandt: The List of Thefts Acknowledgements Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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GOR005170278
9780230339903
0230339905
Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists by Anthony M. Amore
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
20150505
272
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