From the Mona Lisa to the jewels of Napoleon, the Louvre has experienced over a century of high-profile heists.
It was the Monday morning of August 21, 1911, the weekly closure day of the Louvre during the summer holidays, when an ...
He was arrested a year later, while robbing an apartment, and sentenced to eight years in prison, along with being fined ...
Leonardo da Vinci started the iconic 'Mona Lisa' painting in Italy but finished it in France, where he sold it to the French ...
Experts say jewels stolen in heists from the iconic Parisian museum are hard to recover, as they are broken down.
Orlando Whitfield wades into the murky backwaters of the multibillion-pound art market, from the most historic heists to ...
Masked thieves stole priceless jewels from the Louvre on Sunday morning. The Paris museum has suffered a string of successful ...
Following Sunday’s brazen robbery at the Louvre Museum in Paris, a spotlight has been cast on the vulnerability of the ...
The heist at the Louvre in Paris on Sunday is the latest major robbery of artworks and precious objects from museums.
According to Paris officials, the thieves reportedly forced a window open, smashed display cases, and used a basket lift ...
More than 25 years before Sunday's heist at the iconic museum, a thief took a 19th-century painting in broad daylight.