@article{1556980,
      recid = {1556980},
      author = {Day, Nicholas, and Helquist, Brett,},
      title = {The Mona Lisa vanishes : a legendary painter, a shocking  heist, and the birth of a global celebrity /},
      pages = {276 pages :},
      abstract = {"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" --},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1556980},
}