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.

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 ...

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 ...

On a page about the Mona Lisa, it said: ‘On August 21, 1911, an Italian workman named Vincenzo Peruggia stole the painting to take to Italy.’ I was immediately hooked. Skip to ...

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 ...

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, ...

Writer-director Joe Medeiros traces the path of Vincenzo Peruggia, charged with the 1911 theft of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa from The Louvre, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...