Barelli John - Stealing the show: a history of art and crime in six thefts

FIRST AND FOREMOST, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MY WIFE, ANNA, and sons, Peter and Andrew.

My literary agent Zach Schisgal for his professionalism and writing talents that made my career a story.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, administration, and all the Mets trustees, Chairmen Arthur Sulzberger, Jamie Houghton, and Dan Brodsky. Trustee Mrs. Florence Irving, who supported the mission of the Mets Security Department and encouraged the writing of this book. Especially Director Philippe de Montebello and President Emily Rafferty. A special thanks to Senior Vice President Harold Holzer, who has assisted and directed me in the writing of this book. Also Director Thomas Campbell. Presidents William Luers, David McKinney, and the current President, Daniel Weiss. Associate Directors Doralynn Pines, Mahrukh Tarapor, and Carrie Rebora Barrett. In the Mets Legal Department Vice Presidents Sharon Cott, Ashton Hawkins, Penelope Bardel, Linden Havemeyer Wise, and Becky Murray. In the Presidents Office Whitney Donhauser and Missy McHugh. My colleague and friend Chris Giftos, who for years beautified the Mets Main Hall with his flower arrangements. In the Construction and Facilities Department, Richard Morsches, Dan OLeary, Nancy Staub, Lita Semerad, Linda Syllings, Nicholas Cameron, Franz Schmidt, Thomas Scally, Philip Venturino, and Thomas Javits.

My colleagues in the curatorial departments who I worked with over the years. In AAOA, Alisa LaGamma, Julie Jones, and Douglas Newton. In American Art, Morrison Heckscher, Sylvia Yount, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Thayer Tolles, and Peter Kenny. In Arms and Armor, Stuart Pyhrr, Pierre Terjanian, Donald LaRocca, Helmut Nickel, and Hermes Knauer. In Asian Art, Maxwell Hern, James Watt, and Judith Smith. In the Costume Institute, Andrew Bolton and Harold Koda. In Egyptian Art, Diana Craig Patch, Dorothea Arnold, Christine Lilyquist, Marsha Hill, and Catherine Roehrig. In Prints and Drawings, George Goldner, Carmen Bambach, and David del Gaizo. In European Paintings, Keith Christiansen, Everett Fahy, Charles Moffett, Katherine Baetjer, Andre Bayer, Susan Stein, and Dorothy Kellet. In ESDA, Ian Wardropper, James Draper, Clare Vincent, and Wolfram Koeppe. In Greek and Roman Art, Joan Mertens and Maxwell Anderson.In Islamic Art, Sheila Canby, Navina Haidar, and Marilyn Jenkins. In the Robert Lehman Collection, Laurence Kanter and Dita Amory. In Medieval Art and the Cloisters, Griffith Mann, Peter Barnet, Barbara Boehm, Helen Evans, Chuck Little, and Thomas Vinton. In Modern Art, William Lieberman and Kay Bearman.In Musical Instruments, Kenneth Moore. In Photographs, Jeff Rosenheim. In the Thomas Watson Library, Kenneth Soehner.

Special thanks to Barbara Bridges in the Mets photo studio.

The unsung heroes in the conservation departments who bring back the life in art objects. In Objects Conservation, James Franz, Lisa Pilosi, Jack Soultanian, Carolyn Riccardelli, Pete Dandridge, and George Wheeler. In Painting Conservation, Michael Gallagher, Hubert von Sonnenberg, Dorothy

Mahon, George Bisacca, and Charlotte Hale.

To my security management team, Ed Devlin, Jose Rivero, Mario Piccolino, Sean Simpson, John Packert, David Canu, Amies Vasquez, Ana Tolentino, Leslye Saenz, Olivia Boudet, Lambert Fernando, Sean Begley, Theo Kypriotis, William Neckar, and Anthony Camarda, and all the security personnel past and present, thank you for your professionalism and dedication to our department and the museum.

To all my colleagues in law enforcement, domestic and international, thanks for your support. Especially NYPD Deputy Commissioner John Miller. With the NYPD, Kevin OConner, Kevin Hallinan, Thomas Hallinan, and Dan Mullin. In the FBI, James Kallstrom, John ONeill, Margot Dennedy, Cathey Bagley, Dan McCaffrey, James Wynn, Ed Petersen, Thomas Ruocco, Rodney Davis, Ed Kelly, Tim Rembijas, and Adam Roeser. At Scotland Yard, Peter Flaherty, Mickey Banks, Colin Bunnett, David Powis, Peter Taylor, Claire Hutcheon, and Ray Swan.

Thanks to all at Rowman & Littlefield, Globe Pequot, and Lyons Press, especially Rick Rinehart, Alex Bordelon, Neil Cotterill, and Jessica Kastner.

Thanks to my good friends Larry Potts and especially Ron Smith and Joaquin Jocko Garcia who supported and guided me in the publishing process.

And finally, to all the members of the security management team that proceeded me Allen Gore, Joseph Volpato, Edward Ryan, Jack Maloney, Louis Vallejo, Richard Covello, Jim Perry, and Pierce McManus.

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Interview with a professional thief, Adam Page, in Blundeston Prison, Lowestoft, England. 1984.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Digital Media.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Security Department.

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Thieves Take Cellini Sculpture from Art Museum in Vienna. By Mark Sandler. New York Times. May 13, 2003.

Theft of the Cellini Salt Cellar. By Richard Bernstein. New York Times. January 25, 2006.

$150,000 Art Theft Is Reported by the Met. By Pranay Gupta. New York Times. February 11, 1979.

Mets Missing Bust Turns Up. By Sam Rosensohn. New York Post. February 15, 1979.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Greek head theft. Participant investigator, police reports (public record). February 9 through February 14, 1979.

Conversation with Joan Mertens, curator, Greek and Roman Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2017.

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Three Held in Theft of Gold Ring from the Met. New York Times. February 16, 1980.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Theft of the Ramesses VI gold ring. Police reports, court documents (public records). Participant investigator. February 1980.

Conversation and correspondence with retired Met Egyptian curator Christine Lilyquist. 2018.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Theft of two Degas sculptures. New York Times. February 6, 1980.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Recovery of Degas sculptures. New York Times. February 10, 1980.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Degas sculptures theft investigation. Participant lead investigator. 1980.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Partisan blade theft investigation. Participant investigator. Police reports (public records). December 1980.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Medieval Art theft of two Celtic gold coins, two gold dress fasteners, two gold pins, and one bronze brooch. NYPD police reports, New York City court documents (public records). Participant investigator. 1980.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Recent acquisitions publication. 198687. Pp. 2021.

Police Trace Pistols to Royal Owner, Catherine the Great. By Barbara Basler. New York Times. March 18,1982.