Who stole the Mona Lisa?
On August 21, 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian carpenter employed at the Louvre stole the painting from the wall of the Salon Carré where it hung between Correggio’s Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine and Titian’s Allegory of Alfanso d’ Avalos leaving only the 4 iron pegs to which it was attached.(see crimes against Mona). It was recovered 2 years later in 1913 when he attempted to sell it to Alfredo Geri, a Florentine antique dealer.
