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King of the Confessors

4.2/5 ( ratings)

King of the Confessors is Thomas Hoving's gripping account of the extraordinary events surrounding the Metropolitan Museum of Art's purchase, in 1963, of the magnificent medieval carved walrus ivory cross that the Museum calls 'The Cloisters Cross', but Hoving calls 'The Bury St Edmund Cross'. This new edition contains revelations that render the events even more extraordinary, and explains why Hoving thinks the Museum has got it wrong.

Language: English

Pages: 352

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Release: July 12, 1982

ISBN: 0345303709

ISBN 13: 9780345303707

King of the Confessors

4.2/5 ( ratings)

King of the Confessors is Thomas Hoving's gripping account of the extraordinary events surrounding the Metropolitan Museum of Art's purchase, in 1963, of the magnificent medieval carved walrus ivory cross that the Museum calls 'The Cloisters Cross', but Hoving calls 'The Bury St Edmund Cross'. This new edition contains revelations that render the events even more extraordinary, and explains why Hoving thinks the Museum has got it wrong.

Language: English

Pages: 352

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Release: July 12, 1982

ISBN: 0345303709

ISBN 13: 9780345303707

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