The heist happened in broad daylight. On August 21, 1911, a thief dressed in a white worker's smock entered the Louvre, closed because it was a Monday. In the Salon Carre, the Louvre's gallery of ...

Leonardo da Vinci ’s Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the world. Her enigmatic smile has long been a source of fascination, and among her most devoted admirers was King François I, who invited ...

Early on the morning of 21 August, 1911, a brazen thief dressed as a museum employee entered the Louvre in Paris without raising an alarm. The building was only open to staff when the Italian man ...

The theft of the Mona Lisa: as Vincenzo Perugia did to steal it According to the reconstruction of the events that took place through the investigations and the analysis of the process documents, the ...

The collection is based on the fascinating story of the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911 by Italian thief Vincenzo Peruggia, and its rediscovery in 1913. The artist also reinterprets the six times the ...

Peruggia was mistakenly under the impression that the Mona Lisa had been looted from Italy by Napoleon’s army during his Italian Campaign (1796-97), writes Charney.

The thief turned out to be Italian. Vincenzo Peruggia wanted to bring the Mona Lisa back to Italy. He believed the painting had been stolen long ago, hundreds of years earlier. What happened to him?

And so one of the reasons that the theft wasn't solved for so long is that everyone was looking for a very accomplished, debonair thief. This man, Vincenzo Peruggia, escaped everyone's notice. He ends ...