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Dec. 12 – Stolen “Mona Lisa” Recovered in Florence

Two years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece The Mona Lisa is recovered inside Italian waiter Vincenzo Peruggia’s hotel room in Florence. The post Dec. 12 – Stolen “Mona Lisa” recovered in Florence appeared first on The Declaration.

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EPHEMERIDE OF THE 12 DECEMBER - Here's all you need to know to start the day well... Today, we celebrate the Jeanne-Françoise of Chantal The day's infoIt's the end of a mystery that held the

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In 1911 the "Mona Lisa" disappears from the Louvre in Paris. This theft makes Leonardo da Vinci's work famous. Like one of the most spectacular art thefts took placeIn the early morning of August 21, 1911 Vincenzo Peruggia lies out of the door of a closet in the Louvre in Paris. The air is clear. All night he stayed in the closet. That Monday the museum is almost deserted, because the halls are just open to staff.The Italian sneaks carefully int…

The Mona Lisa, also called La Gioconda, is probably Leonardo Da Vinci’s most famous work. She arrived at the Louvre Museum in 1804 and remained there for more than a century without commotion. But on August 21, 1911 everything changed: the painting completely disappeared from the Parisian museum and alerted the whole city. The next day, when the Louvre reopened its doors, the empty space where the painting should be confirmed the unthinkable: th…

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Sud Ouest broke the news in France on Friday, December 12, 2025.
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