Posted on August 21, 2021
This is an update of my post published on August 21, 2010:
It seems that it might take a lot of planning and even technology to steal one of the world's most famous paintings, but on this day in 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia just walked into the Louvre, took down the painting, hid it in his clothes, and strolled out.
Some time later an amateur painter set up his easel to paint a copy of the master painting, and of course noticed that it was gone—and that is the first the Louvre knew of the theft!
It took two years to recover the painting. Investigators and detectives couldn't find it, but Peruggia attempted to return the painting for ransom money and was caught.
Thankfully, the painting was unharmed.
Do an art project based on or inspired by the Mona Lisa. (Here's another one.)
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