The Handyman Who Made the Mona Lisa Famous | Mysterious World Vault

In 1911, the Mona Lisa was just one painting among thousands in the Louvre in Paris, France. Then a worker in a white smock walked out with it, and everything changed. This is the true story of the Mona Lisa theft: who Vincenzo Peruggia was, how he slipped through the Louvre on a Monday morning, why the police missed him, and how two years of newspaper headlines turned a quiet portrait into the most famous painting on Earth. You will also meet the detective with the fingerprint, the poet and the painter who were wrongly arrested, a con man whose tall tale still circulates, and the art dealer who finally set the trap in Florence, Italy. If you enjoy stories where history turns out stranger than fiction, subscribe and watch the next video. 0:00 The Quiet Exit 0:36 A Painting Nobody Queued For 2:30 The Man in the Smock 3:56 Monday Morning 5:40 The Empty Wall 7:25 Suspects and Wild Rumors 9:11 Two Years in a Trunk 10:38 The Trap in Florence 12:00 How a Theft Made a Legend #MonaLisa #Louvre #History #ArtHeist #Documentary