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S'està carregant… Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece (edició 2010)de Noah Charney (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Toda obra de arte encierra el misterio de su propia creación. ¿Cuál es el motivo por el que consigue fascinar a espectadores que van más allá de un lugar y una época? El caso de La adoración del cordero místico constituye un caso único. Y es que la atracción que ha ejercido la obra maestra de Jan van Eyck excede las explicaciones que puedan dar los historiadores del arte. Desde que el maestro flamenco lo finalizara en 1432, este retablo ha sufrido todo tipo de vicisitudes. Haber sido robado hasta trece veces no constituye más que una pequeña parte de su increíble historia. Ha sido botín de guerra en tres ocasiones, ha sufrido quemaduras y desmembraciones, fue falsificado, vendido ilegalmente y censurado, sufrió ataques de iconoclastas y ha sido codiciado por Hitler y rescatado por agentes dobles austríacos? Entre muchas otras cosas.¿Qué secreto esconde el retablo? Noah Carney, especialista en delitos relacionados con el arte, narra las historias que se tejen en torno a la obra de Van Eyck. Párrocos, contrabandistas y falsificadores se encuentran con figuras históricas como Napoleón, Göring o Hitler. La historia se entrelaza con el arte, la psicología, la ideología, la religión y la política para explicar la atracción fatal que ha ejercido esta pintura. Un libro inteligente y trepidante sobre el poder del símbolo y de la belleza. Fascinating story of a 15th Century altar piece, looted several times. I was left with a sense that the most recent heist was an unfinished story. The detail and emphasis on the systemic Nazi looting somewhat overpowered the history of Van Eyck's masterpiece. I've not read Charney before, so I don't know whether such side-tracking in a story is typical of this author's work. Fascinating look at the troubled history of one of the most famous works of art, The Ghent Altarpiece. This book delves into the artist of the piece as well as the time, the people, and the other history surrounding it. The Ghent Altarpiece is the most stolen piece of art of all time. It has been stolen, illegally sold, hunted by Nazis, (think Monuments Men) dismembered and so much more. We read this book for our book club and there was so much to discuss. Who really painted it, the symbols found in the panels, where the missing panel is, and so forth. The only thing I did not like about the book were the pictures. They just did not do justice to the art piece. However there are several books out there that have great photos of it. If you are interested in art history at all, read this book! Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing . I have read a number of books similar to this, but I found Stealing the Mystic Lamb to be dry and slow. It is not a shining example of this type of book, although it is clearly very well researched. Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing . It's great to see Van Eyck's magnificent painting getting some popular coverage in this fascinating book. As with most books in this genre, it's somewhat sensationalistic and exaggerates somewhat in order to make all of this into a compelling narrative. Nonetheless, it's a fun and quick read, and certainly makes the history of this painting interesting. I also quite like the idea of a popular history book that traces the history of a single object through time.
Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece is on any art historian's list of the ten most important paintings ever made. Often referred to by the subject of its central panel, the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, it represents the fulcrum between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It is also the most frequently stolen artwork of all time. Since its completion in 1432, this twelve-panel oil painting has been looted in three different wars, burned, dismembered, forged, smuggled, illegally sold, censored, hidden, attacked by iconoclasts, hunted by the Nazis and Napoleon, used as a diplomatic tool, ransomed, rescued by Austrian double-agents, and stolen a total of thirteen times. In this fast-paced, real-life thriller, art historian Noah Charney unravels the stories of each of these thefts. In the process, he illuminates the whole fascinating history of art crime and the psychological, ideological, religious, political, and social motivations that have led many men to covet this one masterpiece above all others. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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