L’arte… che avventura!

Which adventures does a work of art go through before reaching a museum? Looking at the sculptures and paintings displayed in silence in rooms with a muffled atmosphere, one would never imagine that they have been through so much… Instead, if they could speak, they would tell of long journeys, thefts, pirate raids, Nazi looting, dangers of all kinds… Works that we imagine were always destined for serene and immobile existences have often had eventful lives, suffered more or less violent changes of hands and risked destruction.The book’s protagonists are 14 masterpieces-from ancient to modern art-that for various reasons could have been lost forever. And along with them, here are also professional or improvised thieves, noble families, armies, pirates, governments, ambassadors, fences… A narrative title, in which the events told will fascinate young readers interested in art but also those in search of adventures, curiosities and surprises, while the peculiar illustrations, with a deliberately ironic touch, bring the events to life by emphasizing the key moments of the action.