The Practice Run: How a Failed Art Heist Provided a Blueprint for the World's Largest Art Robbery - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13:9798881805951UPC:9798881805951Book Category:True Crime, ArtBook Subcategory:Heists & Robberies, HistorySize:9.10 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SC8BN25JES
The Practice Run: How a Failed Art Heist Provided a Blueprint for the World's Largest Art Robbery
On Saint Patrick's Day, 1990, one of the largest art thefts in the world took place-the heist of Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in which thirteen works of art, worth over half a billion dollars, were stolen by two thieves posing as policemen. Had there been a prior practice run for this theft? Ten years earlier, during the Christmas season, two thieves who posed as delivery men, after...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13:9798881805951UPC:9798881805951Book Category:True Crime, ArtBook Subcategory:Heists & Robberies, HistorySize:9.10 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SC8BN25JES
Frederick J Fisher is retired museum professional. He received his bachelor's degree from Portland State University, Portland, Oregon and his master's degree (art history with a museum internship at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art) from George Washington University, Washington, DC. Among his museum positions were, assistant to the director of the Krannert Art Museum, University...
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