Friday, August 21, 2015
Days of Infamy: August 21 and 22 and Major Art Heists
For art history, August 21 and 22 are the dates that will live in infamy, not December 7th (all apologies to FDR).
In some strange nexus of negative karma stretching over nearly a
century, three of the greatest art heists of all time took place on
these dates: the theft of the Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (shown above) from the Louvre in Paris, France, on August 21, 1911; the theft of Goya’s Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London, England, on August 21, 1961; and the theft of Edvard Munch’s The Scream (shown above) and Madonna from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, on August 22, 2004. Each story ends happily with the
works returned safe and sound, but the stories behind each still
bewilder and amaze. Please come over to Picture This at Big Think to read more of "Days of Infamy: August 21 and 22 and Major Art Heists."
Labels:
Art Theft,
Big Think,
Da Vinci (Leonardo),
Goya,
Greed,
Louvre,
Munch (Edvard)
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Hmm... very entertaining to get to know it. I only knew about Scream theft.
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