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The Bernini Bust
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Iain Pears. |
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Berkley |
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paperback
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| ISBN |
0425191893 |
| Pages/Publication Date |
288/2003 |
| Daedalus Item Code |
62864 |
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| Description |
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Jonathan Argyll has finally scored a coup. He's sold an overpriced Titian to the well-endowed Moresby museum in Los Angeles. Not bad for an art dealer who thinks selling paintings is the most unpleasant part of his job. Having come to L.A. to drop off the painting and pick up the check, Argyll finds a sneaky art dealer, whom he suspects of having smuggled a Bernini bust out of Italy. Then the Moresby's imperious owner, who's got a lot more money than sense, is murdered, and both the smuggler and the Bernini disappear. Argyll needs the help of General Bottando and Flavia di Stefano of the Italian National Art Theft Squad—especially when the killer’s attention turns towards him. The Old World art world is a labyrinthine network of museum buyers with negotiable scruples, gallery owners of varying reputation, obsessive private collectors, talented forgers, even more talented thieves, and the occasional earnest art lover. An art historian himself, Iain Pears re-creates that world in detail through the investigations of Italy's National Art Theft Squad. General Taddeo Bottando, his charming young protégée Flavia di Stefano, and the very earnest English art historian Jonathan Argyll uncover lost treasures and found fakes, all amid a masterfully painted cast of rascals and collectors in these Art History Mysteries.
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