On Monday morning, Aug. 21, 1911, inside the Louvre museum in Paris, a plumber named Sauvet came upon an unidentified man stuck in front of a locked door. The ...

Almost immediately, the Paris-Journal began advertising 50,000 francs for the Mona Lisa’s return, no questions asked, according to John Richardson’s A Life of Picasso. Among the lead suspects ...

Stealing La Joconde — the woman in the portrait is probably Lisa del Giocondo, a Florentine silk merchant's wife — was not particularly difficult. Like the Louvre's other paintings, it was ...

Fresh off a sold-out run at Theater for the New City, Stealing Mona Lisa - a New Musical is back Off Broadway for a one night performance designed to give theater goers and the industry one more ...

When Picasso Was Arrested for Stealing the “Mona Lisa ... Paul Rogers is an illustrator whose work has included posters, logos, children’s books, and U.S. postage stamps.

Stealing Mona Lisa, directed by Jack Ligenza, with music by Gary Edwards and book and lyrics by Claude Solnik and music direction and piano performance by Tristan Cano is slated to run at Theater ...

People can get blown away by the Mona Lisa. They can't have enough of Leonardo da Vinci's beautiful, mysterious painting of Lisa del Giocondo, writes CHRISTOPHER HUDSON.

Six-year-old Landon Storm thrust his face into a hole where Mona Lisa's mug would normally be. He smiled big for the photo op, and his dad, Dave Harrison of Coon Rapids, took a picture. A series ...

In 1911, when the work disappeared from the Lourve, Pablo Picasso was a suspect. In 1962, the Mona Lisa was insured for $100M. Taking 2022 inflation into account, that would be worth about $968M ...

On August 21, 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from Paris's Louvre Museum. It was a Monday—the museum was closed and security was minimal—and the thief had reportedly spent the weekend plotting ...

It isn't the anarchists who steal the "Mona Lisa," or the Germans or Americans. It turns out to be an Italian, Vincenzo Perugia (sometimes spelled Perrugia), a sullen, diminutive house painter who ...

Stealing the Mona Lisa starts with a mystery and a problem. The mystery is not just that the Mona Lisa was stolen (from the Louvre in 1911). Nor that it took the French police, in the best ...