From the Mona Lisa to the jewels of Napoleon, the Louvre has experienced over a century of high-profile heists.
The world’s largest art museum, the Louvre has approximately half a million objects in its collection, with about 30,000 on ...
It was the Monday morning of August 21, 1911, the weekly closure day of the Louvre during the summer holidays, when an Italian mason named Vincenzo Peruggia carried out the most astounding art heist ...