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Peruggia's theft is part of popular culture, and over the years it has been celebrated in books, films, and songs including the "Mona Lisa" written in 1978 by Ivan Graziani. [24] In Der Raub der Mona Lisa (1931), an early German sound film, Peruggia was portrayed by Willi Forst .
The Mona Lisa (/ ˌ m oʊ n ə ˈ l iː s ə / ... Peruggia was an Italian patriot who believed that Leonardo's painting should have been returned to an Italian ...
In 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia is a poverty-stricken Italian glazier who falls in love with Mathilde, a French hotel maid. Struck by the girl's resemblance to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Vicenzo steals the painting from the Louvre in hopes of impressing her. When she proves to be fickle, the crestfallen hero confesses and is arrested.
On August 21, 1911 Peruggia hid the Mona Lisa under his coat and simply walked out the door. Before the heist took place, Valfierno allegedly commissioned French art restorer and forger Yves Chaudron to make six copies of the Mona Lisa. [2] [3] The forgeries were then shipped to around the world, readying them for the buyers he had lined up.
December 12 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, stolen from the Louvre in 1911, is located in Florence when Vincenzo Peruggia attempts to sell it. It is returned to Paris on December 30. Generación del 13 established in Chile.
Lisa del Giocondo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈliːza del dʒoˈkondo]; née Gherardini [ɡerarˈdiːni]; June 15, 1479 – July 14, 1542) was an Italian noblewoman and member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany.
In 1913 he managed to recover the Mona Lisa, stolen from the Louvre two years earlier. [8] [9] It had been stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia who hoped to sell it and got in touch with Poggi, who in turn contacted the Florentine art dealer Alfredo Geri to verify the work's authenticity. [8]
December 12 – Vincenzo Peruggia tries to sell the Mona Lisa in Florence, and is arrested. December 19 – The Raker Act is signed by President Woodrow Wilson, allowing the City of San Francisco to dam Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park.