Noah Charney
Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece.
Public Affairs, 2010. First printing. 9781586488000  318 pages.
Hardcover volume and dust jacket are new. Presents a history of the world's most pilfered masterpiece--Jan van Eyck's "Ghent Alterpiece," treasured for its central panel, "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb"--Which has been looted in three wars, burned, forged, smuggled, hunted by the Nazis, and stolen thirteen times.