THE MUSEUM OF MYSTERIES/ ART'S BEST

Art and mystery collide in this fascinating look at the secrets behind some of the world's most important masterpieces and their cre ators. Who was the model for Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring? How were the Nazca Lines, the giant drawings scrawled across Peru' s desert coast, created? Why is Botticelli's Birth of Venus an ingenious example of mathematic computation? Traveling across centuri es and continents, this collection of 40 enigmatic artworks and artists examines secrets that have confounded experts and amateurs a like.