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When his wealthy Italian mistress dies, the amoral historian Max Mather inherits first choice from among her trove of paintings. Rummaging around, he finds two panels of aged wood. On them are portraits that have never been cataloged, both by Raphael, and each is worth in excess of $50 million. The Italian government may seize such rare items as national treasures, so Max works a scheme to spirit them out of the country. But this is only the beginning of Masterclass (St. Martin's Press; 330 pages; $19.95). Author Morris West (The Shoes of the Fisherman, The Clowns...
Gilman was hardly a famous Founding Father, but he left behind a treasure trove. His clapboard home in Exeter, N.H., is now a museum, and its executive director, Richard Tobin, learned of the vault in a note that turned up in the house. "We've been finding things all over," he says, "under the beds, in closets, everywhere." So far, the booty includes a drawing by Paul Revere of the Boston Massacre, papers signed by Louis XVI and Lafayette, and a ring with a lock of George Washington's hair...
...since the Berlin Airlift of 1948-49, when the Western Allies saved the city from Soviet strangulation. Ironically, among the supplies to be sent to the U.S.S.R. will be 300,000 tons of powdered staples and canned foods that had been stockpiled in Berlin against another such blockade -- a trove whose existence had been a secret for 40 years until the current crisis brought it to light...
...ROMANTIC VISION OF CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH: PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS FROM THE U.S.S.R., the Art Institute of Chicago. The flood of treasures from Russian collections continues, here with a trove of haunting, otherworldly works by the great German mystic Friedrich (1774-1840), loaned by the Hermitage and Pushkin museums. Through...
...heroine, Ayla. In the latest 757-page volume, Ayla sets forth from her home among the Mammoth Hunters of the Eurasian steppes and, braving blizzards, a locust swarm and a fall into a glacier crevasse, reaches what is now the Dordogne, in southwest France. The region harbors a rich trove of ! Upper Paleolithic remains, including the mystically painted caverns. The Lascaux cave "overwhelms me," Auel says. "These weren't dumb savages...