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A history of heists at the Louvre: From the Mona Lisa to Napoleon's jewels

The Sunday theft from the Louvre Museum of eight priceless pieces of jewelry belonging to Emperor Napoleon and his wife has ignited a national outcry and nationwide manhunt.French President Emmanuel Macron called the crime "an attack on a heritage that we cherish because it is our history,

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The theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre Museum in 1911: here's the story

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Why is the ‘Mona Lisa’ in the Louvre and not in Italy?

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Thieves Rob Priceless Jewels From Paris' Louvre in Brazen Heist

A robbery has taken place at the Louvre museum in Paris early on Sunday, French Culture Minister Rachida Dati said, with the newspaper Le Parisien reporting several thieves have stolen pieces of jewel...

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Jewels stolen from the Louvre include imperial crowns and necklaces

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France’s Louvre Struck by Thieves in Daring Daytime Jewel Heist

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Hunt continues for thieves after priceless jewels stolen in heist at Louvre museum in Paris

According to Louvre's website, the crown features golden eagles and is covered in 1,354 diamonds and 56 emeralds.

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Thieves broke into the Louvre Museum in Paris, stealing jewelry of "inestimable heritage and historical value" in brazen heist

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Thieves strike Louvre in brazen jewel heist, museum shuts

Daily Camera

Da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ portrait may have older sister

GENEVA — The mystery behind the most enigmatic smile in art — Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” — just got a little more complicated. In a coming-out party of sorts in Geneva, rounds of flashbulbs popped Thursday as the nonprofit Mona Lisa ...

THE WEEK

Mona Lisa: 'hidden' painting discovered behind the surface

A French scientist has claimed that Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the world's most recognised painting, conceals another portrait beneath it – of an entirely different woman. Pascal Cotte, who has studied the painting for more than ten years, examined ...

UPI

'Mona Lisa' not 'Lisa' at all, scientist says after 10-year analysis of da Vinci masterpiece

PARIS, Dec. 8 (UPI) --A French scientist who has examined the Mona Lisa for more than a decade says a reflective light analysis technique has allowed him to see beneath the painting, where he's found other images that convince him the woman is not who art ...

The Verge

This man stared at the Mona Lisa for 10 years and then it told him its secrets

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, is irrefutably the most famous painting in existence, and with fame often comes controversy, suspicion, conspiracy. That’s why French scientist Pascal Cotte has been staring at the Mona Lisa for 10 years, trying to dig up ...

The Louvre has a wild history of being robbed in broad daylight

One of the most infamous heists in the cultural institution’s history was the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa—when Pablo Picasso numbered among the suspects.