'SCANDALS, VANDALS AND DA VINCIS: GREAT PAINTINGS AND THEIR REMARKABLE STORIES' - Hardcover

Rachlin, Harvey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1861058780 ISBN 13: 9781861058782

Publisher: Robson Books, 2007

Synopsis

Rare book

About this title

About the Author:

Harvey Rachlin is the award-winning author of thirteen books. He has written for the New York Times and numerous other publications.

From Booklist:

Great paintings often have great backstories, and in this lively, gossipy book, prolific Rachlin takes full advantage, amping up the drama in these mostly familiar art controversies. There isn't much serious criticism here; instead he takes an almost pulp-fictional approach to tales of art theft, vandalism, public trials, and private inspirations. We learn about the burglary of Leonardo's Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911, followed by its bizarre recovery two years later; three separate attacks (by vandals wielding knifes and sulfuric acid) on Rembrandt's The Night Watch; and the flight of the outlaw Caravaggio and how his troubles might have influenced his David with the Head of Goliath. Best of all, Rachlin follows the line "whatever happened to . . .," as in the case of John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark. The real-life subject of the painting's depiction of a boy on the verge of having his leg bitten off survived his ordeal and went on to become a Revolutionary War-era American hater and English nobleman, despite his peg leg. Kevin Nance
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About this edition

• Publisher: Robson Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1861058780
• ISBN 13: 9781861058782
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320