Art of the Heist

"Inside the art world's biggest thefts"

Investigating the most high profile art thefts of the 20th and 21st centuries, ‘Art of the Heist’ fits together the pieces of the crime jigsaw and studies the masterpieces coveted by the criminal world.

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4. The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa

0.0Apr 27, 2007 · 55 min

On a summers day in 1911 a man walked into the Louvre, took the Mona Lisa off the wall and walked out. He had stolen the world's most famous painting and thousands of people queued to see the empty space the painting had left.