The Best Artwork Heist in Historical past: How the Mona Lisa Was Stolen from the Louvre (1911)

In case you hap­pen to go to the Lou­vre to take a look at Leonar­do da Vin­ci’s Mona Lisa, you’ll discover you could’t get espe­cial­ly near it. That owes partly to the ever-present crowd of cell­cellphone pho­tog­ra­phers, and extra so to the paint­ing’s hav­ing been put in behind a wooden­en bar­ri­er and encased in a…