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The Medici conspiracy : the illicit journey of looted antiquities from Italy's tomb raiders to the world's greatest museums /
A true-life thriller completely exposes the network behind the illegal trade in ancient artifacts - and features a rich cast of rogues and some of the world's most prestigious art institutions.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
PublicAffairs,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.