One of the most infamous heists in the cultural institution’s history was the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa—when Pablo Picasso ...
Following a daring €88 million jewel heist at the Louvre, a viral meme imagines the museum's artworks coming to life to ...
Experts say jewels stolen in heists from the iconic Parisian museum are hard to recover, as they are broken down.
It was the Monday morning of August 21, 1911, the weekly closure day of the Louvre during the summer holidays, when an ...
From the $500 million Gardner Museum robbery to the theft of the Mona Lisa, history’s biggest museum heists, including this ...
The heist at the Louvre in Paris on Sunday is the latest major robbery of artworks and precious objects from museums. They ...
Manet’s ‘Olympia’ is coming to the Met as part of its ‘Manet/Degas’ exhibition “Olympia” — the Mona Lisa of modern art — has come to America for the first time. Édouard Manet began painting his ...
The world's most-visited museum reopened three days after thieves made off with $100 million in jewels in a brazen crime that ...
A major robbery occurred at the Louvre Museum in Paris, leading to its closure for the day. Thieves used a basket lift to ...
The French museum Louvre is the latest victim in the growing trend of high-value museum heists across the world. In the ...
Art historians have tussled for ages over many aspects of what is arguably the world’s most famous painting: Leonardo’s Mona Lisa (ca. 1503–08). Who was the sitter? What does her smile mean? Is the ...