This reconstruction shows how Peruggia perpetrated the greatest art theft of the 20th century. “We sold our cleverly executed copies, and … sent [the buyers] forged documents [that] told of the mysterious disappearance from the Louvre of some gem of painting or world-envied objet d’art.… The documents always stated that in order to avoid scandal a copy had been temporarily substituted by the museum authorities.”. Because of the painting's overwhelming stature, Dadaists and Surrealists often produce modifications and caricatures. [27] The designer of the room had placed on a cushion, in the middle of a semicircle, a massive silver hemisphere that symbolized justice. ), Woman, 22, who had 'sexual contact' three times with a boy, 14, who she met on the internet avoids jail after judge says 'there was genuine affection' between the pair, Fears for UK coronavirus patients as the US buys almost the ENTIRE world stock of remdesivir – one of only two drugs approved for NHS use – and threatens to do the same with any vaccine, Donald Trump threatens to scrap Obama-era housing regulation intended to desegregate neighborhoods and claims it's had a 'devastating impact' on America's suburbs. There was nothing that really distinguished it per se, other than it was a very good work by a very famous artist — that's until it was stolen," Noah Charney, professor of art history and author of "The Thefts of the Mona Lisa," told CNN. Inside, he took from under the bed a small trunk made of white wood. Under a shower of even more publicity, it returned to the Louvre following mobbed exhibitions in Florence, Milan and Rome. He never saw the thief, or thieves, leave the building. After 28 months, Vincenzo Perugia was arrested for the theft of the Mona Lisa. Some argued that Lisa del Giocondo was the subject of a different portrait, identifying at least four other paintings as the Mona Lisa referred to by Vasari. For the first time there were queues outside the Louvre, just to see the empty space where the painting had hung. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. It was a post-office box in Paris. When a reporter telephoned a curator of the Louvre to tell him the news, the Frenchman, in the middle of his dinner, said it was impossible and hung up. Would the Louvre cover it up, pretend it had not happened? [64] The decorative Renaissance frame brought the total to nearly 200 pounds. Someday, speculated Valfierno, all of them would reappear. One of the most popular conspiracy theories suggested that a rich American had masterminded the theft. [105][106], Today the Mona Lisa is considered the most famous painting in the world, but until the 20th century it was simply one among many highly regarded artworks. Continue Forger Yves Chaudron was to have created six copies of the painting to sell in the US while concealing the location of the original. Mug shots of Vincenzo Perugia, the man accused of taking the Mona Lisa. In 1909, the art collector Comtesse de Béhague gave the portrait its current frame,[100] a Renaissance-era work consistent with the historical period of the Mona Lisa. “No, sir, I never acted with that in mind. History is full of famous art heists. That’s not too high.” They made a plan to meet the following day. He had been in there since the previous day—Sunday, the museum’s busiest. A later restorer glued and lined the resulting socket and crack with cloth. Duveen, however, avoided involvement by pretending that the proposal had been a joke. [18][19] It is believed by some that the Mona Lisa was begun in 1503 or 1504 in Florence. [17] In 1516, Leonardo was invited by King Francis I to work at the Clos Lucé near the Château d'Amboise; it is believed that he took the Mona Lisa with him and continued to work on it after he moved to France. A forger could make craquelure appear on a freshly painted object, but no one could duplicate the exact pattern of the original. The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911 and The Scream was stolen twice. But when did all this take place? Unfortunately, we cannot be absolutely certain that this portrait of Lisa del Giocondo is the painting of the Louvre."[19]. The paintings were stolen from a family house in London in 1970, abandoned on a train and then later sold at a lost-property auction, where a factory worker paid 45,000 Italian lira for them -- roughly equivalent to 22 euros ($30) at the time. Nevertheless, the discussion got down to the reward. Although known to be an early 16th-century work of Leonardo da Vinci, only a small but growing circle of art critics and aficionados were aware that it was special. But shortly after Peruggia returned home, the police stormed in and arrested him.
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