On December 11th, 1913, Italian police arrested Vincenzo Peruggia in Florence, Italy. Peruggia had stolen the Mona Lisa from the Louvre two years earlier on August 21, 1911. He was captured only when trying to sell the painting to the Uffizi Art Gallery for $500.000. They turned him in. The Mona Lisa, by Leonardo Da VinciContinue reading “December 11 “The most beautiful and famous…””