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Noah Charney is a professor of art history and the founder and president of the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA). He has published hundreds of articles in magazines such as
the Guardian, the Washington Post, Salon, the Art Newspaper, the Observer, Tendencias del Mercado del Arte, and many more. He also appears regularly on radio and television for the BBC, ITV, NPR, National Geographic, Travel Channel and others. He is the Pulitzernominated author of twelve books, several international best-sellers, among them the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art (2017) and Phaidon's bestselling The Art of Forgery (2015). He lives in Slovenia with his family and their hairless dog, Hubert van Eyck. Images of each lost work of art are presented, where possible, alongside their fascinating true story, placing each of the masterpieces in an international, historical context Hand-coloured photograph of the Amber Room as installed in the Catherine Palace, Tsarskoye Selo (Pushkin), near St Petersburg, 1931 Still from the film Le mystère Picasso, 1956, dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot. Picture credit: Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2018 Heather Benning, The Dollhouse: Fire #2, 2013, Kodak Endura digital C-print, 50.8 × 76.2 cm (20 × 30 in). Picture credit: Courtesy of Heather Benning Each chapter opens with the story of an artwork that was lost but eventually found, inspiring readers to appreciate the fragility of what does survive