On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da
Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four
hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The
prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and
Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French
detectives using the latest methods of criminology, including
fingerprinting, tried to trace the thieves, a burgeoning
international media hyped news of the heist.
No story captured the imagination of the world quite like this
one. Thousands flocked to the Louvre to see the empty space where
the painting had hung. They mourned as if Mona Lisa were a lost
loved one, left flowers and notes, and set new attendance records.
For more than two years, Mona Lisa’s absence haunted the art world,
provoking the question: Was she lost forever? A century later,
questions still linger.
Part love story, part mystery, Vanished Smile reopens the case of
the most audacious and perplexing art theft ever committed. R. A.
Scotti’s riveting, ingeniously realized account is itself a
masterly portrait of a world in transition. Combining her skills as
a historian and a novelist, Scotti turns the tantalizing clues into
a story of the painting’s transformation into the most familiar and
lasting icon of all time.
關於作者：
R. A. Scotti is the author of three previous
works of nonfiction, including Basilica: The Splendor and the
Scandal–Building St. Peter’s and Sudden Sea: The Great
Hurricane of 1938, and four novels. She lives in New York
City.
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