The Book "Lost, Stolen or Shredded" offers  some interesting facts and insights about missing artworks and literature.The author Rick Gokoski, is entertaining and very well informed. Here are some things from his first chapter on "La Giaconda" that I never knew or find really interesting: On the viewing public at large: "When the Louvre re-opened, in 1911, a week following the theft of Mona Lisa in...thousands of people...queued for hours to enter the Salon Carré simply to gaze at the empty … [Read more...]