Art theft
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Art theft is the stealing of paintings, sculptures, or other forms of visual art from galleries, museums or other public and private locations. Stolen art is often resold or used by criminals as colla
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was robbed in 1990, losing paintings and items valued at over $500 million.
Jean-Baptiste Oudry's The White Duck, which was stolen in 1990
Johannes Vermeer: The Concert (c. 1658–1660)
Rembrandt: The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633)
Vincenzo Peruggia
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Pietro Vincenzo Antonio Peruggia was an Italian decorator best known for stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, a museum in Paris where he had briefly worked as glazier, on 21 August 1911.
Art theft
…and illegal trade in stolen art and antiquities. Some famous art theft cases include the robbery of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911 by employee Vincenzo Peruggia. Another was the theft of The Scream, stolen from the Munch Museum in 2004, but recovered in 2006. The largest-value art theft occurred at the Isabella…
A police photograph of Vincenzo Peruggia in 1909, two years before the theft of Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, 1913. Museum director Giovanni Poggi (right) inspects the painting.
The Mona Lisa returned at the Louvre Museum, 4 January 1914