In 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia stole da Vinci’s masterpiece from Paris and later brought it to Florence. But the theft’s success as a repatriation effort was very short-lived.

More than a century later, American thieves are proving that sometimes, the old ways still work best.

One hundred years ago Sunday, an Italian handyman named Vincenzo Peruggia stole the world’s most famous painting from the world’s most famous museum. Peruggia slipped out of a closet inside ...

One of the world’s most notorious art thieves was Vincenzo Peruggia, the man who stole the “Mona Lisa.” The Italian glazier worked at the Louvre in Paris where Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th ...

In one of the final scenes of Joe Medeiros’s engaging documentary Mona Lisa Is Missing — a look at the story of Vincenzo Peruggia, the thief who stole Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous ...

It just so happens that museum caretaker Vincenzo Peruggia took the risk and succeeded in stealing the painting from the museum, avoiding authorities for over two years. But unfortunately for him, ...

Vincenzo Peruggia steals the Mona Lisa on Monday 21st August, 1911. The Louvre is closed for cleaning and there are just 12 security guards on duty rather than the normal 116.

The sparsely decorated apartment where Vincenzo Peruggia hid the painting in Paris. (Getty: Roger-Viollet)No-one suspected the masterpiece would be lying inside a sparsely furnished, one-room ...

One of the world’s most notorious art thieves was Vincenzo Peruggia, the man who stole the “Mona Lisa.” The Italian glazier worked at the Louvre in Paris where Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th ...