Stealing the Mystic Lamb (50 page)

copy of

and ransom/ransom notes

theft of, and investigation

theft of, theories regarding

Roberts, Owen J.

Roberts Commission (American

Commission for the Protection

and Salvage of Artistic and

Historic Monuments in War

Areas).
See also
Art protection; Monument protection

Robespierre, Maximilien

Roger of Helmarshausen (pseud. Theophilus Presbyter)

Roosevelt, Franklin

Rorimer, James

Rosenberg, Alfred.
See also
ERR; Rosenberg Report

Rosenberg Operational Staff.
See
ERR

Rosenberg Report.
See also
ERR; Rosenberg, Alfred

Rothschild family

Rubens, Peter Paul

Sachs, Paul

Safehaven Programme

Saint Barbara, Chapel of

Saint Barbara
( J. van Eyck)

Saint Bavo, Abbey of

Saint Bavo, Church of

Saint Bavo Cathedral

and Adam and Eve (panels), sale of

fire at

during French revolutionary era

and Righteous Judges (panel)

during World War I

during World War II

Saint Cloud

Saint Donatian, Church of

Saint George
(Donatello)

Saint Germain, Treaty of

Saint John, Church of

Saint John at the Latin Gate

Saint Mark (Donatello)

Saint Nicholas, Church of

Saint Peter, Abbey of

Saint Pierre Cathedral

Saint Saviour, Church of

Saint Stephen, Church of

Saint-Claire, Paul

Saints

Salt mine art-storage facilities.
See also
Alt Aussee salt mine art-storage facility

San Miniato al Monte

Santa Maria del Fiore

Schäffer, Emil

Schiele, Egon

Schliemann, Heinrich

Schmidt-Staehler organization

Secret agents

Secret code, and
Ghent Altarpiece

Seghers, Emile-Jan

Self-Portrait of Jan
(J. van Eyck)

Septimius Severus

Sibyls

Sieber, Karl

Sigismond, King (of Hungary)

Signac, Paul

Silverpoint

Sizer, Theodore

Sluter, Claus

Socialist Bank of Labor

SOE.
See
Special Operations Executive

Solly, Edward

Sonderstab Bildende Kunst (Special Operations Staff for the Arts)

Sonneman, Emily

Spaak, Paul-Henri

Special Operations Executive (SOE)

Speer, Albert

Standhartinger, Karl

Storage facilities.
See
Art-storage facilities

Stout, George

Swarzenski, Georg

Sykes, William

Symbolism

Taking of Christ
(Caravaggio)

Tarra, Valentin

Taylor, Francis Henry

Thirty Years’ War

Thouin, Citizen

“Three Facts Related to the Mystic Lamb” (Van den Gheyn)

Three Marys at the Tomb
( J. van Eyck)

Tiled floor, of Angelic choir (panel) (photo)

Tinet, Citizen

Titian

Tolentine, Treaty of

Transfiguration
(Raphael)

Transplanting

Treasure map, and
Ghent Altarpiece

Treatise of the Art of Painting
(Alberti)

Triest, Josse

Triptych of the Nativity
(van der Weyden)

Trotteyn, Jos

Uffizi Museum

Utrecht Cathedral

Valland, Rose

Van Artevelde, Fillip

Van Artevelde, Jacob

Van den Durpel, Ernest

Van den Gheyn, Gabriel

and
Ghent Altarpiece,
during World War II

and Righteous Judges (panel), theft of

and Righteous Judges (panel), theft of, theories regarding

Van der Eecke, Lyevine

Van der Veken, Jef

Van der Weyden, Rogier

Van Elewijk (district attorney)

Van Eyck, Hubert (brother)

and
Ghent Altarpiece,
attribution of

and Righteous Judges (panel), portrait in

Van Eyck, Jan

as alchemist

artistic development of

artistic medium of

biographical information on

as court painter

death of

as first Renaissance painter

and
Ghent Altarpiece,
attribution of (see also
Ghent Altarpiece
)

influence of

as innovator

oil medium perfected by

paintings of, forged or misattributed

popularity of

portraiture of

and realism

salary of

as secret agent

self-portrait of

signature of

tomb of, destruction of

as
valet de chambre

wife and children of

Van Eyck, Lambert (brother)

Van Eyck, Margaret (sister)

Van Eyck, Marguerite (wife)

Van Eyck, Philippot (son)

Van Ginderachter, Joseph

Van Gogh, Vincent

Van Kesel, Monsignor

Van Mander, Karel

Van Meegeren, Han

Van Ogneval, Gustave

Van Ogneval, Kamiel

Van Scorel, Jan

Van Vaernewyck, Marcus

Van Volsem, Beadle

Vasari, Giorgio

Vatican

Vaucher, Paul

Velazquez, Diego

Vendôme Decrees

Veneziano, Domenico

Venus de Medici

Vermeer, Jan

Veronese, Paolo

Verrocchio, Andrea del

Versailles, Treaty of

and
Ghent Altarpiece

and Hitler

and Righteous Judges (panel), theft of

Vienna Gallery

Viennese Service for the Protection of Historical Monuments

Vijd, Christoffel

Vijd, Joos

Vijd, Joos (panel)(photo)

Vijd, Nikolaas

Vijd Chapel

Virgil

Virgin with a Choir of Angels
(Botticelli)

Vissers, Johan

Visual references

Voltaire

Vom Alter der Ölmalerey aus dem Theophilus Presbyter
(Lessing)

Von Behr, Kurt

Von Bode, Wilhelm

Von Falke, Otto

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

Von Hummel, Helmut

Von Kuensberg, Freiherr

Von Ribbentrop, Joachim

Von Wolff-Metternich, Franz

Voragine, Jacobus da

Waagen, Gustav

Walpole, Horace

War

War Art Project

War of 1812

Ward-Perkins, John

Waterloo, Battle of

Well of Moses
(Sluter)

“ What the English Have Done in Cyrenaica,”

Wheeler, Mortimer

Where Eagles Dare
(film)

Wicar, Jean-Baptiste Joseph

Winders, Max

Woolley, Sir Leonard

World War I

and art and monuments, protection of

post-, and artwork, return of

World War II

and art and monuments, protection of

art protection guidelines during

Ghent Altarpiece
during

See also
Germany; Hitler, Adolf; Nazis

Zechariah

Ziegler, Adolf

Noah Charney
is the author of the international bestselling novel
The Art Thief
and the founding director of The Association for Research into Crimes against Art, an international nonprofit think tank. His work in the field of art crime has been praised in such forums as
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Magazine,
Time
Magazine,
Vanity Fair, Vogue, BBC Radio
, and
NPR
. Currently a professor of art history at the American University of Rome, he lives in Italy with his wife and Hubert van Eyck, their Peruvian Hairless.

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