02757cam a2200421 i 4500 1144824426 ER5 20240213120000.0 230418s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023017551 9780593643846 0593643844 (OCoLC)1356890669 ER5 rda Day, Nick, (Nicholas.) The Mona Lisa vanishes : a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity / Nicholas Day ; with art by Brett Helquist. First edition. New York : Random House Studio, [2023] ©2023. 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-270) and index. A star is born -- She's gone -- Tell me, tell me, tell me - The Mona Lisa is nowhere, the Mona Lisa is everywhere -- Everything that is possible to do -- The consummate professional -- Marry or else -- Gigantic figures in human shape -- An improbable series of improbable events -- A wild and perfect pair -- A dangerous woman -- My name is Leonard -- The afterlife. "On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c'est partie! 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 backstreets. 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" -- Publisher's description. 20240213. 2024 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Winner; 2024 Horn Book Award winner. Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 Mona Lisa Juvenile literature. Painting, Italian Juvenile literature. Theft from museums Juvenile literature. Creative nonfiction. lcgft ART THEFTS France Paris Juvenile literature. Helquist, Brett, illustrator.