Mona Lisa Heist: How One Man Stole the World's Most Famous Painting

On 21 August 1911, the Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre, and nobody noticed for more than a day. Police questioned Apollinaire and Picasso while the painting sat hidden in a trunk in Paris for two years. This is the true story of Vincenzo Peruggia, the former Louvre glazier who stole her, the letter signed "Leonard V." that gave him away in Florence, and how the theft made her the most famous painting on Earth. Subscribe to The Deep Cut:    / @thedeepcuthq   00:00 Four iron hooks 00:39 A Painting Almost Nobody Knew 01:43 The Glazier 02:47 Monday, 21 August 1911 04:27 Twenty-Eight Hours 05:37 The Wrong Suspects 06:37 The Detective at the Table 07:53 A Letter Signed "Leonard V." 09:03 Hero or Thief? 10:42 Coming Home 11:07 The Theft That Made a Legend Key sources: Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Peruggia trial file no. 64/1914 (online exhibition "Io sono e mi chiamo Peruggia Vincenzo"); NPR, 30 Jul 2011 (with the authors of The Crimes of Paris); The New York Times, 23 Aug 1911 and 15 Dec 1913; Le Petit Parisien, 13 Dec 1913; Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug 2011. Full list in the pinned comment. Archive images and footage: Wikimedia Commons (public domain, CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA; authors named in the film's credits and the pinned comment). Music: HussonX (Echo, Current, Orbit, Fade, Undone). Narration voice: en-GB-RyanNeural. #MonaLisa #TrueCrime #Documentary