No doubt the most valuable object ever stolen, it vanished from the Louvre in 1911, but was recovered
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Art theft: the stolen pictures we may never see again - Telegraph  Dec 17, 2013 ... Hollywood has got it wrong  art theft is not driven by villainous ... case had been solved, but none of the missing works has been recovered. ... of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911 would dramatically boost sales. .... 'The World's Most Expensive Stolen Paintings' is on BBC Two at 9pm on Saturday...
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Stealing Mona Lisa | Vanity Fair  The shocking theft of the Mona Lisa, in August 1911, appeared to have been solved 28 ... Mona Lisa, telling a co-worker that it was the most valuable object in the museum. .... The Louvre, after the Mona Lisa was stolen, May 1912. .... There could be no further doubt, Poggi concluded: the Mona Lisa had been recovered.
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Where's the Monet? The Top 10 Art Heists of All Time | Lofty Blog ...  The thief no doubt enjoys a glass of vintage Scotch or Merlot while studying the loot. ... From the Christmas Eve theft to the notorious case of the missing Mona Lisa, here ... man who stole the Mona Lisa out of the Louvre Museum in Paris, 1911-1913, ... Most of the pieces were recovered in 1989 when the thieves  Carlos...
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The Biggest Unsolved Art Heistand the Detective Who Came ...  Mar 17, 2015 ... After he recovered his first pieces of stolen art in the late '80s and early ... In its decade of operation, the FBI's Art Crime Team has recovered 2,650 items valued at more ... stolen from the Louvre in 1911, and Edvard Munch's The Scream. ... But no real art buyer is going to pay $350,000 for hot art that they...
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Jeopary Questions page 837 - A BEASTLY CATEGORY ...  GUINNESS RECORDS: No doubt the most valuable object ever stolen, it vanished from the Louvre in 1911, but was recovered  LITERARY QUOTES: In this...
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9 Priceless Artifacts Museums Should Return to Their Home Countries  Dec 11, 2013 ... Discovered in Rosetta, Egypt by a French officer in 1799, this ... Although Egypt has continued to push for the stone's return, the British Museum refuses to budge. ... "It's the same question with the Elgin Marbles and all these other .... Get the Mic stories you can't afford to miss. ... We think you'll like these too.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft - Wikipedia  In the early hours of March 18, 1990, security guards at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum ... The stolen works were originally purchased by art collector Isabella Stewart .... unrecovered stolen painting, with a value estimated at over $200 million. Another painting, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, is Rembrandt's only...
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jeopardy/1339_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  TRANSPORTATION | Guiness says on a calm night in 1966 one of these became largest object ever stolen by one man | a freighter (ship). right: Wrong: Triple...
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Vincenzo Peruggia - Wikipedia  Vincenzo Peruggia (October 8, 1881  October 8, 1925) was an Italian thief, most famous for stealing the Mona Lisa on 21 August 1911. ... It was a police theory that the former Louvre worker hid inside the museum on Sunday, ... have donated the painting to an Italian museum, rather than attempted to profit from its sale.
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Sunken treasure - divers recover the stunning artefacts of... - Daily Mail  May 26, 2010 ... Divers in the waters off Alexandria have recovered stunning ... ruins of a palace and temples belonging to Egyptian queen Cleopatra. ... Alexandria's Royal Quarters - ports, a cape and islands full of ... Mr Goddio's team found it in 1996. ... Franck Goddio shows a recently excavated bronze cult statue found...
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22 of the Most Expensive Items Ever Sold at Auction  Jun 18, 2014 ... Wealthy collectors are setting world records at the auctions these days, and not just for contemporary art. Here are 22 of the most valuable...
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Great Art Thefts Of The 20th Century - Forbes  Feb 28, 2001 ... Thousands of paintings have been stolen over the last 50 years. ... world's greatest post-war art thefts reveals that most of the work stolen from museums, ... be worth over $20 million on the marketif a buyer could be found. ... of Galileewhich is Rembrandt's only marine paintingChez Tortoni by Manet,...
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'The finest Mosque in the world' - The Parthenon - Erenow  Athens was left trading instead on the allure of its distinguished classical past. ... Had it not been for the catastrophic explosion of 1687, there is a strong chance that .... and plundered from the cupboards in the cathedral where it had been stored. ... with the Venetian and Ottoman Turks constantly hovering in the background.
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The Louvre Museum: Facts, Paintings & Tickets - Live Science  May 10, 2013 ... The Louvre is the world's largest museum and houses one of the most ... paintings by the Old Masters, and crown jewels and other artifacts from French nobles. ... Architect I.M. Pei was awarded the project, and he designed an underground lobby and modern glass pyramid structure in the courtyard.
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Mona Lisa: The theft that created a legend - CNN.com  Nov 19, 2013 ... Why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world? ... <div class="banner" ... how Peruggia perpetrated the greatest art theft of the 20th century. ... Mona Lisa recovered 100 years ago  A man in Paris offers the .... Sure, all of these things helped boost the popularity of the 16th century masterpiece.
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Nerdfighteria Wiki - 26 Famous Art Heists - mental_floss on ...  May 28, 2014 ... In 1994 it was taken from Oslo's national gallery, then recovered three months later. ... On August thirteenth, 2011, a Rembrandt drawing, worth around two ... In 1937, a private collector loaned Renoir's 'Landscape on the Banks of the Seine' to the Baltimore museum of art, where it was stolen in 1951.
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Jeopary Questions page 709 - FAMOUS ROBBERIES - TriviaBistro ...  List of Jeopardy Questions, Page 709 - FAMOUS ROBBERIES. ... 1951 investigators recovered this royal "stone" stolen from Westminster Abbey in 1950 ... In a 1950 armed robbery, nearly $3 million was stolen from this armored car company.
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AFTER THE RIOTS - Confessions of a Star-Struck Looter - NYTimes ...  When Frederick's of Hollywood, the lingerie emporium, was being ... Published: May 6, 1992 ... here at the main store, valued at $200,000, had been stolen but that the ... Ms. Appel said that Madonna's bustier, the museum's most popular ... The items were looted from Frederick's of Hollywood during the Los Angeles riots.
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11 Notable Art Thefts | Britannica.com  After two years, the Mona Lisa was recovered, but not before it had achieved a level of ... In 2003 thieves took works by Gauguin, Picasso, and van Gogh from the ... antiquities from Mexico City's National Museum of Anthropology in 1983. ... that investigation produced leads on the whereabouts of the missing Rembrandt.
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Frederick's uplifting museum is dismantled - latimes - Articles From ...  Dec 19, 2006 ... But where is the mannequin of Milton Berle in his drag dressing ... Frederick's of Hollywood quietly dismantled its Lingerie Museum ... when looters invaded and stole a bustier Madonna had worn on a ... (Madonna later reportedly gave a replacement in exchange for a Frederick's cash donation to a charity.).
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Mona Lisa: The theft that created a legend - CNN.com  Nov 19, 2013 ... Why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world? 100 years ago the small portrait was stolen from the Louvre, ... in August 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen off the walls of the Louvre in ... Mona Lisa recovered 100 years ago  Vincenzo Peruggia, the Italian handyman who stole the Mona Lisa,...