You happen to visit the Louvre and take a look at Leonardo da Vinci. Monalisayou will find that you cannot get particularly close to it. This owes partly part of the crowd of mobile phone photographers. Additionally, the painting is placed behind a wooden barrier and wrapped in a sturdy glass box. These are the proper precautions for the world’s most famous works of art. But it wasn’t always that much security, and it wasn’t really the case. Monalisa He’s always very respected. Over a century ago you could use it to leave the Louvre.
You can do that. That is, you can do so if you know about the Louvre’s internal tactics, the willingness to pick masterpieces from the walls and spend the night in one of the museum’s closets. Vincenzo PeruggiaItalian immigrants who worked there as a cleaner and fukramer of painting, had all those qualities. On the evening of Sunday, August 20, 1911, Pergia entered the Louvre wearing one of the standard questioned employee coats. The next day he appeared at a nearly empty museum and was closed as it was open to the public every Monday. You can see what happened next by looking Primitive space The above videoVisualize each step of the robbery and its aftermath.
Why did you dare to steal Pergia? Monalisa During the day, it’s a suitable act Arsène Lpine (Created a few years ago)? Discovered a few years later, and hiding the painting at the false bottom of the trunk almost throughout, Pergia cast herself apart as an Italian patriot trying to return cultural livestock to her hometown. Another possibility that I elaborate in the video is that he is merely a pawn in a larger scheme masterminded by Forger Eduardo de Valfierno.
Either way, that’s true what Saturday evening post A story reported in 1932in fact, Pergia could have acted alone because of a higher motivation than the need for cash. (In a sense, if the perpetrators were actually Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, that would have been more interesting. But soon Radio Conda Returning her to her rightful place, she became the face of the art itself. And that’s why the museum does something much different than it did at 19 Ten. You can see that Louburg will be closed on Tuesday instead.
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