The Secret History of Art

THE SECRET HISTORY OF ART takes you on a series of private guided tours of the world's greatest artworks. Best-selling author and professor of art history Noah Charney presents the history, symbolism, and importance of each work. The Secret History of Art is a series of lessons in miniature on great works of art around the world. By spending just a few minutes per masterpiece, you can learn the mysteries, stories, and secrets of some of civilization’s greatest treasures.

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Jun 21, 2017

Secret History How to Steal from the Louvre

This episode goes inside the world of art theft, looking specifically at some little-known details about the theft of the Mona Lisa.
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Mar 20, 2016

Why Forgers Want to Get Caught


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Labels: art and crime, art crime, art forgery, art history mystery

Sep 7, 2015

Secret History of Art: Napoleon, Emperor of Art Theft


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Jan 30, 2014

Secret History of Art: How I Write: James Patterson

Secret History of Art interviews author James Patterson for The Daily Beast.
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Journal of Art Crime

Journal of Art Crime
Twice-yearly journal, for the best in art crime scholarship and news, for scholars and professionals, published by ARCA

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Study Art Crime in Italy
Featured in The New York Times, ARCA runs an annual Masters Program in the Study of Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection, taught by police and world-renowned professors

Welcome to The Secret History of Art

Welcome to The Secret History of Art
This blog and its accompanying videos are extensions of Noah Charney’s acclaimed Museum Time (De Museos) series, guidebooks to the museums of Spain, published in Spanish and English by geoPlaneta.

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MUSEUM TIME by Noah Charney
Charney's acclaimed series of guides to Spain's greatest museums

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STEALING THE MYSTIC LAMB: The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece by Noah Charney

STEALING THE MYSTIC LAMB: The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece by Noah Charney
Charney's acclaimed latest book, the story of the world's most influential, and most frequently stolen, masterpiece

Praise for Charney's "Stealing the Mystic Lamb"

The author…with specialty expertise to spare…[provides] an intriguing blend of reportage and art history, providing what is in effect a remarkable “biography’ of this beautiful and tough survivor [The Ghent Altarpiece]. -The Sunday Times UK

Well-written and thorough, this book reminds us of the influence and fragility of art, our veniality and heroism, and the delights found in both the beautiful and the strange. -Cleveland Plain Dealer

A brisk tale of true-life heroism, villainy, artistry and passion. -Kirkus Reviews

In scrupulous detail, Charney divulges the secrets of the revered painting’s past, and in doing so, gives readers a history lesson on art crime, a still-prospering black market. -Christian Science Monitor

I am awed by the magnitude of the things I don’t know. Although art is surely a subjective experience, expertise is often required to nudge one along to appreciation. I would not have paused to look at 'The Mystic Lamb' without Charney’s backstory. It still does not appeal to me as a thing of beauty or as inspiration. But I confess, Charney has me wishing I could see the Altarpiece in Ghent. -The Providence Journal

Deftly narrated. -Los Angeles Times

Wonderfully learned and entertaining…innovative and elegant. -Catholic Herald


THE ART THIEF by Noah Charney

THE ART THIEF by Noah Charney
Charney's international best-selling novel

Praise for Charney's "The Art Thief"

Fascinating details about Caravaggio and Vermeer, the lucrative business of art forgery and the sophisticated thieves who steal priceless paintings. -USA Today

An engaging whodunnit. -Financial Times

Descriptively brilliant and filled with witticisms, this fine romp features a clever and well-drawn cast of characters, as well as educates readers about real masterpieces and the artists behind them. -Rocky Mountain News

Clever and addictive...A first-class example of literate escapism...[Charney] might do for the art world what Tom Clancy has done for the military-espionage milieu. -Richmond Times-Dispatch

Art & Crime: Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World

Art & Crime: Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World
ARCA's edited volume on art crime--all profits from the sale of this book support ARCA's non-profit activities

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Noah Charney is a professor and an international best-selling author of fiction and non-fiction, specializing in the fields of art history and art crime. He is the founder and president of ARCA, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art, a non-profit research group (www.artcrime.info). His work in the field of art crime has been praised in such forums as The New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, The Sunday Times (UK), BBC Radio, National Public Radio, El Pais, Corriere della Sera, Vogue, and Vanity Fair. Charney is the author of an international best-selling novel, “The Art Thief” (Atria 2007). He is the editor of “Art & Crime: Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World” (Praeger 2009) and author of the “Museum Time” series, guides to museums in Spain (geoPlaneta 2010). His latest book is “Stealing the Mystic Lamb: the True History of the World’s Most Coveted Masterpiece” (PublicAffairs 2010). Trained in art history at The Courtauld Institute and Cambridge University, Charney has taught for many years, for Yale and Brown, and in Cambridge, Florence, Rome, and Ljubljana. Charney is now a professor at American University of Rome. He can be reached at theartthief@gmail.com
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