Number	24665
Subject	Art
Source	HarperCollins (New York)
State	Rome, Italy
Year	2009
Publication Date	6/2009
Summary	Author Vernon Silver dives deep into the Italian world of art smuggling. Through court documents and "interviews with modern tomb robbers, smugglers and art dealers," Silver is able to locate a valuable missing vase. The book provides an in-depth look at the world's third largest "underground economy," and how a "network of powerful people and institutions" has been at the center of the "illicit art and cultural property trade."
Category	Contest Entry
Pages	344
Keywords	Euphronios; Oxford University; Metropolitan Museum of Art; chalice; Zeus; art smugglers; tomb raiders
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