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Author
Series
Gabriel Allon volume 22
Language
English
Description
A gripping story of deception in the world of international fine art. Restorer and spy Gabriel Allon embarks on a dangerous hunt across Europe for the secret behind the forgery of a seventeenth-century masterpiece that has fooled experts and exchanged hands for millions.
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Isabel Dalhousie attends an art auction, she finds an irresistible puzzle: two paintings attributed to a now-deceased artist appear on the market at the same time, and both of them exhibit some unusual characteristics. Are these paintings forgeries? So she begins an investigation.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
August, 1911: The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincent Peruggia. Exactly what happens in the two years before its recovery is a mystery. Many replicas of the Mona Lisa exist, and more than one historian has wondered if the painting now in the Louvre is a fake, switched in 1911. Present day: art professor Luke Perrone digs for the truth behind his most famous ancestor: Peruggia. His search attracts an Interpol detective with something to prove and an unfamiliar...
Author
Series
Wicked trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Gareth Fitzallen normally bestows his talents on experienced, worldly women. But when he heads to Langdon's End to restore a property he inherited--and to investigate a massive art theft--he lays plans to seduce a most unlikely lady.
7) Homeport
Author
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A woman art historian and an art thief join forces to find a stolen 15th century statue of the Dark Lady, one of Michelangelo's mistresses. Love blooms between Dr. Miranda Jones, a six-foot redhead, and Ryan Boldari, a handsome Irish-Italian, but can she trust him? Lots of detail on authenticating art.
9) The Sower
Author
Series
Chimera chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Hawk Hill Literary, LLC
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Hired to solve a cold-case murder, private detective Ronni Brilliant, a transgender former Marine MP, struggles with the prospect that her own client, Hamilton Blethen, may be the killer. Blethen, charged with selling a forgery of The Reaper, a famous painting by Spanish artist Joan Miro, fires Brilliant, adding to her suspicion. Driven by self-doubt and her own demons, Brilliant searches for Blethen's estranged mother who may have information about...
10) The art forger
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Language
English
Description
Boston painter Claire Roth has survived financially by painting reproductions, so when influential gallery owner Aiden Markel arrives with a bizarre proposal--her own show if she will forge a copy of a Degas, one of the pictures stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--she says yes. As she works, Claire and Aiden become lovers, but she doesn't tell him about her discovery that the stolen Degas is itself a copy. This knowledge is Claire's lifeline...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
For years, there have been whispers that, before his death, Van Gogh completed a final self-portrait. Curators and art historians have savored this rumor, hoping it could illuminate some of the troubled artist's many secrets, but even they have to concede that the missing painting is likely lost forever. But when Luke Perrone, artist and great-grandson of the man who stole the Mona Lisa, and Alexis Verde, daughter of a notorious art thief, discover...
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