The last Mona Lisa : a novel [electronic resource] / Jonathan Santlofer.
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: [United States] : Sourcebooks Inc, 2021.
- Distributor: Made available through hoopla
Content descriptions
Restrictions on Access Note: | Digital content provided by hoopla. |
Summary, etc.: | August, 1911: The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincent Peruggia. Exactly what happens in the two years before its recovery is a mystery. Many replicas of the Mona Lisa exist, and more than one historian has wondered if the painting now returned to the Louvre is a fake, switched in 1911. Present day: Art professor Luke Perrone digs for the truth behind his most famous ancestor: Peruggia. His search attracts an Interpol detective with something to prove and an unfamiliar but curiously helpful woman. Soon, Luke tumbles deep into the world of art and forgery, a land of obsession and danger. A gripping novel exploring the Mona Lisa's very real theft in 1911 and the present underbelly of the art world, The Last Mona Lisa is a suspenseful tale, tapping into our universal fascination with da Vinci's enigma, why people are driven to possess certain works of art, and our fascination with the authentic and the fake. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519. Mona Lisa > Fiction. Art thefts > France > Paris > Fiction. Peruggia, Vincenzo > Fiction. Art > Forgeries > Fiction. College teachers > Fiction. Novels. Electronic books. |