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£1.5 Billion Under A Coat: A Heist That Led To Fame

£1.5 Billion Under A Coat: The Theft That Led To Fame

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It’s difficult to come across a person who doesn’t know of Da Vinci’s masterpiece; Mona Lisa or La Gioconda, but what most people don’t know is the reason behind it’s fame. The masterpiece owes it worldwide fame to it’s theft on August 21, 1911, when Louvre employee Vincenzo Perrugia (pictured below) stole the painting by hiding in a broom closet during working hours and later, after the museum had closed for the day, slipped the painting now worth £1.5 billion under his coat and made a run for it.

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[August seems to be a bad month for good art; Scream and Madonna by Edvard Munch were also stolen in the month of August, 2004] It’s true what they say, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.

£1.5 Billion Under A Coat: The Theft That Led To Fame