It was the Monday morning of August 21, 1911, the weekly closure day of the Louvre during the summer holidays, when an ...
On the other side of the Atlantic, the aggravated robbery of 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston ...
He was arrested a year later, while robbing an apartment, and sentenced to eight years in prison, along with being fined ...
Museum heists, particularly ones involving historic and valuable items, have shocked the world and inspired mystery and ...
The Louvre jewelry heist is just one of the biggest museum heists in history—here's a look at the greatest of all time.
Theft of the "Mona Lisa" One of the most famous art heists in history was the 1911 theft of the "Mona Lisa." The 16th-century ...