The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
Nicholas Day
This historical account interweaves two stories connected to the Mona Lisa. One follows the 1911 theft of the painting from the Louvre and the investigation that did not locate either the artwork or those who took it. The other examines Leonardo da Vinci: his wide-ranging interests, artistic skill, and the circumstances that led him to paint Lisa Gherardini’s portrait in the early sixteenth century. It also traces how public and media response to the theft changed the painting’s cultural prominence.
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