Exactly 100 years later, a documentary film uncovers new insights into the theft of the masterpiece.
by David D'Arcy
by David D'Arcy
New York. On 21 August 1911, someone entered the Salon Carre of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, removed the Mona Lisa from the wall, unfastened the clamps holding the panel to its frame, and walked off. A painstaking police investigation followed, as newspapers fumed over such a brazen theft. Police failed to capture the thief until he tried to sell the painting in Florence more than two years later.
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