The Medici conspiracy :the illicit journey of looted antiques from Italy's tomb raiders to the world's greatest museums
- 作者: Watson, Peter,
- 其他作者: Todeschini, Cecilia.
- 出版: New York : PublicAffairs 2007.
- 稽核項: xx, 407 p., [8] p. of plates :ill. ;22 cm.
- 標題: Archaeological thefts.
- ISBN: 1586484389 , 9781586484385
- 附註: 103年科技部補助人文及社會科學研究圖書設備計畫規劃主題 : 藝術學 : 博物館蒐藏與文化展示. Originally published: New York : BBS PublicAffairs, 2006 Includes bibliographical references and index. Prologue on Fifth Avenue -- Sotheby's, Switzerland, smugglers -- Connoisseurs and criminals: the passion for Greek vases -- Corridor 17 -- Forensic archaeology in the Freeport -- The paper trail, the Polaroids, and the "Cordata" -- The Getty: the "Museum of the Tombaroli" -- The Metropolitan in New York and other rogue museums -- "Collectors are real looters" -- The laundries of London and New York -- Phone taps and the great rumor -- The Paris raid on Robert Hecht -- Raids in Zurich and Geneva, arrest and interrogations in Cyprus and Berlin -- Interrogations in Los Angeles and Manhattan -- The puzzle of the "orphans" -- The "Cordata" continues in Egypt, Greece, Israel, and Oxford -- The fall of Robin Symes -- The woodcutter's archive -- The trial of Giacomo Medici -- Trading with Japan, trials in Rome -- Operation eclipse -- Conclusion: 500 million dollars + 100,000 looted tombs - Chippendale's Law -- Epilogue on Fifth Avenue -- Dossier.
- 系統號: 005263508
- 資料類型: 圖書
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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 network of dealers and smugglers who spirit them out of Italy and into the hands of wealthy collectors and museums. Peter Watson, a former investigative journalist for the London Sunday Times and author of two previous exposés of art world scandals, names the key figures in this network that has depleted Europe's classical artifacts. Among the loot are the irreplaceable and highly collectable vases of Euphronius, the equivalent in their field of the sculpture of Bernini or the painting of Michelangelo. The narrative leads to the doors of some major institutions: Sothebys, the Getty Museum in L.A., the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York among them. Filled with great characters and human drama, The Medici Conspiracy authoritatively exposes another shameful round in one of the oldest games in the world: theft, smuggling and duplicitous dealing, all in the name of art.
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