Art heist

I’ve spent a lot of time researching art theft and forgery. One in particular—the notorious 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre Museum. Here’s how it went: a recently fired employee hid in …

Thieves, amateurs, and patriots have spent enough time planning the perfect art heist. Some may be inspired by movies, while some prefer creative solutions. Here's a list of the strangest heists ever.

In 1990, two thieves made off with a $500 million cache of art by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas and more. Three decades later, the works remain missing

When £2.5m of rare books were stolen in an audacious heist at Feltham in 2017, police wondered, what’s the story? By Mark Wilding

FBI's Top 10 art heists in history - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. These are the FBI's top 10 art heists in history, according to the bureau's art theft database. A majority of them remain unsolved.

This surrealistic painting shows two men in black suits floating over a landscape showing a sky covered in grey clouds, empty road and distant mountains. The men are, in fact, the elements of the picture that the viewer would probably notice first, not only because of their strange situation in the space but also because of the dark colors used to paint their suits, contrasting the soft grayish tone of the clouds and the foggy blue hue of the mountains below the scene. It is a very…

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