Between 1503 and 1506, Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. Since 1797, the Mona Lisa has been on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris. The painting is the property of the French Republic. Back then, the Mona Lisa was unheard of by the general public. In the 1860s, some French critics began to […]
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In the early morning of August 21, 1911, Italian decorative artist and museum worker Vincenzo Peruggia committed one of the world's most famous art thefts. He stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre Museum.