The Mona Lisa vanishes a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity
"On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c'est partie! The Mona Lisa, she's gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House Studio, an imprint of Random House Children's Books,
[2023]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c'est partie! The Mona Lisa, she's gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? Travel back to an extraordinary period of revolutionary change: turn-of-the-century Paris. Walk its backstreets. Meet the infamous thieves--and detectives--of the era. And then slip back further in time and follow Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the Mona Lisa, through his dazzling, wondrously weird life. Discover the secret at the heart of the Mona Lisa--the most famous painting in the world should never have existed at all" -- |
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| Physical Description: | 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Audience: | Ages 8-12 Grades 4-6 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-270) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780593643846 0593643844 9780593643853 0593643852 |
| Author Notes: | BRETT HELQUIST is the illustrator of classics such as A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, The House of Bunnicula by James Howe, and books by Blue Balliet, including the New York Times bestselling Chasing Vermeer . Visit him on the Web at bretthelquist.com or on Instagram at @bhelquist. |
