Daring thieves always target to swindle artistic masterpieces of the world that makes global headlines. Here are the most high-profile art thief cases.
The biggest art thief in history was the steal of famous “Mona Lisa”. In 1911, an Italian immigrant and Louvre employee named Vincenzo Perugia wandered around the museum. He simply put the famous painting “Mona Lisa” under his coat and walked out of the museum. His intention was to bring the famous Da Vinci work for his homeland. Two years later, he was arrested when trying to sell the masterpiece to an Italian museum in Perugia. He was given a one-year sentence.
The famous painting Mona Lisa
The thief that stole the painting from Manchester's Whitworth Art Gallery in April 2003 left the note saying “The intention was not to steal, only to highlight the woeful security”
Two people stole 20 paintings, including the globally-known Sunflowers from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The artwork was later found hours later without damage
The Leonardo Da Vinci painting Madonna with the Yarnwinder, which costs from $45 million and $50 million, was found empty at the Duke of Buccleuch's home in Scotland in 2003
The masterpieces named “The Scream", left, and "Madonna" were stolen on 12 September 2006 from the Munch Museum in Oslo. The thieves were arrested in 2006 but the paintings were partly damaged
In 2010, a single thief got into the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris and brought the paintings by Picasso, Matisse and other great artists. The lost pieces were about 500 million euros in value
The self portrait of Rembrandt and the Renoir paintings "Jeune Parisienne" and "Conversation" was stolen from the Swedish National Museum in 2010 by three James Bond-style art heists
The Mona Lisa - Oil Painting
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