The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums by Cecilia Todeschini, Peter Watson

The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums

Cecilia Todeschini, Peter Watson

407 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
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The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery o...

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