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 ...

The native town of the Italian labourer who stole the Mona Lisa a century ago is to honour Vincenzo Peruggia with a play that portrays him as an Italian patriot.

This much is well established: On Aug. 21, 1911, an Italian house painter named Vincenzo Peruggia, who had briefly worked on a project at the Louvre, walked out of the Paris museum with the ...

Sunday marks 100 years since the art world's most famous heist, to be remembered by a play in the man's honour. "We believe Peruggia was a patriot," said Simone Toffanin, director of the play ...

ROME: The native town of an Italian labourer who stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum in Paris 100 years ago on Sunday in the art world's most famous heist will honour him with a play that ...

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

In Hollywood movies, the art thief has become something of a romantic legend. But away from the big screen, art looting is big and ugly business. From Vincenzo Peruggia, the man who stole the ...

Learn more about the full cast of The Missing Piece: Mona Lisa, Her Thief, ... Self - 84 years, daughter of Vincenzo Peruggia. Joe Medeiros. Self. Benito Mussolini. Self. Robert K. Wittman.

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.

ROME, Aug 20: The native town of an Italian labourer who stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum in Paris 100 years ago in the art world's most famous heist will honour him on Sunday with a ...