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Saving Mona Lisa
In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley as part of the biggest museum evacuation in history. As the Germans neared Paris in 1940, the French raced to move the masterpieces still further south, then again and again during the war, crisscrossing the southwest of France. Throughout the German occupation, the museum staff fought to keep the priceless treasures out of the hands of Hitler and his henchmen, often risking their lives to protect the country's artistic heritage. Saving Mona Lisa is the sweeping, suspenseful narrative of their struggle.
Females in the Frame
This book is available in audiobook format, narrated by Kerry Fox: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Females-in-the-Frame-Audiobook/B08PC6YSW1?asin=B08PC6YSW1&source_code=ASUOR22212112000M8 This book explores the untold history of women, art, and crime. It has long been widely accepted that women have not played an active role in the art crime world, or if they have, it has been the part of the victim or peacemaker. Women, Art, and Crime overturns this understanding, as it investigates the female criminals who have destroyed, vandalised, stolen, and forged art, as well as those who have conned clients and committed white-collar crimes in their professional occupations in museums, libraries, and g...
Tax Crimes and Enforcement in the European Union
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. EU member states lose hundreds of billions of euros to tax evasion every year. Tax crimes have a significant impact on the functioning of national and international economies and on the global financial system. Not only do they affect the actors involved and the state that has been deprived of tax revenues, but the citizens of those states suffer too. Tax Crimes and Enforcement in the European Union presents the findings of the EU-funded PROTAX project. Chapters writte...
Salvando a Mona Lisa
No final de agosto de 1939, quando a guerra ameaçava eclodir na Europa, os curadores do Louvre guardaram o quadro mais famoso do mundo em um estojo especial forrado com veludo vermelho e o enviaram ao Vale do Loire, cerca de duzentos quilômetros ao sul de Paris. Assim começou a maior retirada de obras de arte e antiguidades da história. À medida que os alemães se aproximavam da capital em 1940, os franceses se apressavam para despachar as obras-primas cada vez mais ao sul, vez após vez durante a guerra, cruzando todo o sudoeste da França. Durante a ocupação alemã, a equipe do Louvre lutou para manter tesouros inestimáveis longe das mãos de Hitler e de seus capangas e para manter seguro o palácio do Louvre, muitas vezes arriscando seus empregos e suas vidas para proteger a herança artística do país. Salvando a Mona Lisa é a história arrebatadora e cheia de suspense dessa batalha. Encorpado por uma pesquisa profunda e acompanhado por fotografias fascinantes daquele período, Salvando a Mona Lisa é uma envolvente história real de arte e beleza, intriga e sagacidade, e de uma coragem moral notável em face de um dos inimigos mais aterrorizantes da história.
The Real Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel lived her own life as a romantic heroine. Fueled by 19th century literature, she built a life which was partly myth and partly factual. She was the fashion designer everyone admired. The business woman whose fortune was impossible to track. She was also a performer, lover of many high profile intellectuals and, as believed by many, a Nazi spy. Her life was, extraordinarily, affected by history (the Nazi movement and World War II), symbolism and literature. This biography explores her life from her troubled and poor past to the opening of her first hat shop, passions and secrets; the biography also draws parallelisms between myths and facts and how, and if ever, they match at all. The biography also features chapters on the Chanel Maison and the creation of her iconic trademark as well as her little black dress and Chanel No 5. Finally, the biography ends with a reflection on how the myth of Coco Chanel is represented today in pop culture.
Chanel
In Chanel: An Intimate Life, acclaimed biographer Lisa Chaney tells the controversial story of the fashion icon who starred in her tumultuous era Coco Chanel was many things to many people. Raised in emotional and financial poverty, she became one of the defining figures of the twentieth century. She was mistress to aristocrats, artists and spies. She broke rules of style and decorum, seducing both men and women, yet in her work expected the highest standards. She took a 'plaything' and turned it into a global industry which defined the modern woman. Filled with new insights and thrilling discoveries, Lisa Chaney's Chanel provides the most defining and provocative portrait yet. 'Chaney's res...
The Chanel Sisters
'Delicious and utterly absorbing... This is a book to be relished and savoured. I can't recommend it enough' GILL THOMPSON, author of THE CHILD ON PLATFORM ONE 'Historical fiction at its finest. Antoinette Chanel will capture your heart' ANN WEISGARBER, author of THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF RACHEL DUPREE --- The unforgettable story of the sisters who changed fashion forever. For readers who fell in love with THE PARIS WIFE and THE AGE OF LIGHT. Gabrielle and Antoinette know they're destined for something better. Abandoned to a convent orphanage, they are raised for simple lives. But at night they dream of a glittering future, and the Chanel sisters are determined to prove themselves worthy. Thei...
Salvando a Mona Lisa
No final de agosto de 1939, quando a guerra ameaçava eclodir na Europa, os curadores do Louvre guardaram o quadro mais famoso do mundo em um estojo especial forrado com veludo vermelho e o enviaram ao Vale do Loire, cerca de duzentos quilômetros ao sul de Paris. Assim começou a maior retirada de obras de arte e antiguidades da história. À medida que os alemães se aproximavam da capital em 1940, os franceses se apressavam para despachar as obras-primas cada vez mais ao sul, vez após vez durante a guerra, cruzando todo o sudoeste da França. Durante a ocupação alemã, a equipe do Louvre lutou para manter tesouros inestimáveis longe das mãos de Hitler e de seus capangas e para manter seguro o palácio do Louvre, muitas vezes arriscando seus empregos e suas vidas para proteger a herança artística do país. Salvando a Mona Lisa é a história arrebatadora e cheia de suspense dessa batalha. Encorpado por uma pesquisa profunda e acompanhado por fotografias fascinantes daquele período, Salvando a Mona Lisa é uma envolvente história real de arte e beleza, intriga e sagacidade, e de uma coragem moral notável em face de um dos inimigos mais aterrorizantes da história.
Chanel's Riviera
Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, glamorous life, far removed from politics or conflict. Featuring a sparkling cast of artists, writers and historical figures including Winston Churchill, Daisy Fellowes, Salvador Dalí, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Eileen Gray and Edith Wharton, with the enigmatic Coco Chanel at its heart, CHANEL'S RIVIERA is a captivating account of a period that saw some of the deepest extremes of luxury and terror in the whole of...
The Queen of Paris
Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style—the iconic little black dress—and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The Queen of Paris, the new novel from award-winning author Pamela Binnings Ewen, is fiction based on facts, some uncovered only within the past few years, and vividly imagines the hidden life of Chanel during the four years of Nazi occupation in Paris in the midst of WWII. Coco Chanel could be cheerful, lighthearted, and generous; she also could be ruthless, manipulative, even cruel. Against the winds of war, with the Wehrmacht march...
