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Art Theft: Most known cases in history

 Art theft is an ancient and complicated crime. If we look at some of the most famous cases of art thefts in history, you will see in detail the measures proposed in connection with the art dealer, art Fakers, mobsters, sizes, and millions of dollars. Here you can read about some of the most famous cases of art theft in history.

 First flight:
 The first domestiziertencumenteerde case of theft opee Art in 1473, when two groupesle retable Giudiziodal the Dutch painter Hans Memling were stolen. While the triptych with the ship was transported from the Netherlands to Florence, the ship was attacked by pirates, the Cathedral of Gdansk in Poland. Today, the piece is at the National Museum in Gdansk, where he recently launched by the basilica of the assumption.

 The best known Theft:
 The most well-known in the Totchichte of art theft tabeltot of the most famous in the world and one of the most famous artists plusStoricoe suspect. On the evening of 21 August 1911, the Mona Lisa from the Louvre stolen. Soon after, Pablo Picasso, was arrested and questioned by the police, but quickly.

 It took about two years before the riddle was solved by the Parisian police. It was noted that 30 ื 21-inch picture was taken by a member of the museum with the name Vincenzo Peruggia, the process simply hidden under his manteauo. However, Peruggia not alone. The attack was by a man with attentamentecondotto, Eduardo de Valfierno who was an art which Faker to make copies and sell them as if they were the original painting.

 While Yves Chaudron, the art forger, was for the creation of the famous masterpiece, Mona Lisa was still hidden in Peruggia homes. After two years, you do not PeruggiaChaudroninvited to submit their bonneset stolen. Finally Peruggia was caught by the police when they tried to sell the painting to an art dealer in Florence, Italy. The Mona Lisa was returned to the blind in 1913.

 The biggest theft in the United States:
 The biggest art theft in the United States was in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. On the evening of the 18th March 1990, a group of thieves wearing police uniforms broke the museum and threeten paintings, whose value is environ300 to millions of dollars. The thieves were two paintings and prints of works by Rembrandt and Vermeer, Manet, Degas, Govaert Flinck, as a French and a Chinese artifact.

 For the period, none of these pictures were found and the case is still pending. According to recent rumors, the FBI investigations into the possibility that the Boston Mob with French art dealers are connected to the crime.

 The Scream:
 EdvardMuncehs painting, The Scream, is probably the intention of the piu painting in the history of the thieves. It was stolen twice, and only recently restored. In 1994, during the Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway, The Scream was stolen from an Oslo gallery by two thieves who broke a window, turn off the alarm and left a note saying thank you for the lack of security .

 Three months later, owner of the painting to the Norwegische government, with an offer: 1 million U.S. dollars ransom pourl Edvard Munch The Scream. The government rejected the offer, but the Norwegian police, together with the British Police and the Getty Museum alrganize or a transaction that the painting, where he belongs.

 Ten years later, the cry was, from the Munch Museum. This time, the robbers with a gun and took another Munch painting ihnen.Obwohl with the museum to wait until the thieves demand ransom afconfirmed that the two elements of the tables were set on fire to gather evidence. Finally, the Norwegian police discovered the two paintings, 31 August 2006, but the facts as they were found sonot not yet known.





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