The Mona Lisa Vanishes - Nicholas Day

Category: Children, Mystery, True Crime
Language: English
Keywords: Art Theft Leonardo da Vinci Middle School Level Paris

Written by Nicholas Day
Read by Carlotta Brentan
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

The Mona Lisa Vanishes–A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

Publisher: Books on Tape
Release date: September 5, 2023
Duration: 04:53:41

On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Mona Lisa, she’s gone!

No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting?

Travel back to an extraordinary period of revolutionary change: turn-of-the-century Paris. Walk its back streets. Meet the infamous thieves—and detectives—of the era. And then slip back further in time and follow Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the Mona Lisa, through his dazzling, wondrously weird life. Discover the secret at the heart of the Mona Lisa—the most famous painting in the world should never have existed at all.

Here is a middle-grade nonfiction written at the pace of a thriller, shot through with stories of crime and celebrity, genius and beauty