From Mona Lisa to Napoleon's jewels
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Explore the history of major art heists at Paris’s Louvre Museum — from the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa to Courbet’s missing The Wave and the recent jewellery robbery in the Apollo Room.
He was arrested a year later, while robbing an apartment, and sentenced to eight years in prison, along with being fined €104m (£90.3m). But the paintings have never been recovered. In 2023, Vjeran appeared in a Netflix documentary in which he went through the heist in detail.
A painting that came on the scene in the early 1900s is gaining sensation with its public display in an Italian city, with some claiming the portrait could be the work of Leonardo da Vinci himself, depicting a younger Mona Lisa. Dubbed the "Isleworth Mona ...
Let’s not quibble about that. Let’s just agree Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait isn’t going to overwhelm with its grandeur. The Mona Lisa is an oversized postage stamp. I’m not going to abase the portrait. The men and women who manage the Louvre ...
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