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The Greatest Art Heists

The noble thief

Leonardo da Vinci’s painting the Mona Lisa is probably the most famous in the world – partly because of its brazen theft in 1911.

Italian Vincenzo Peruggia was working as a handyman at the Louvre, Paris, when he masterminded the art heist. His motive was he thought the painting should have been

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