Back in 1911, the Mona Lisa didn’t get a lot of attention. Art critics considered it an excellent example of a painting from the renaissance era, but the general public wasn’t nearly so enamored.

That changed in August of that year, when someone plucked it off the wall of the Louvre, busted it out of its glass box and frame, and took off with it.

“Who stole the Mona Lisa?” by Simon Kuper for Slate

“Stolen: How the Mona Lisa became the world’s most famous painting,” by James Zug for Smithsonian Magazine

“Stealing Mona Lisa,” by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler for Vanity Fair

The documentary “Mona Lisa is Missing”

“When Picasso went on trial for stealing the Mona Lisa,” by Ian Shank for Artsy.net

“The man who stole the Mona Lisa,” by Laura Cumming for The Guardian

“The Theft That Made The ‘Mona Lisa’ A Masterpiece,” NPR.org

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