Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of the Mona Lisa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307278388)

On August 21, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's most celebrated painting vanished from the Louvre. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art.

The sensational disappearing act captured the world's imagination. Crowds stood in line to view the empty space on the museum wall. Thousands more waited, as concerned as if Mona Lisa were a missing person, for news of the lost painting. Almost a century later, questions still linger: Who really pinched Mona Lisa, and why? Part love story, part mystery, Vanished Smile reopens the puzzling case that transformed a Renaissance portrait into the most enduring icon of all time.

Author: R. a. Scotti
ISBN-10: 0307278387
ISBN-13: 9780307278388
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 04/06/2010
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.54w x 0.74d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 04/11/2010 pg. 24