History’s greatest art thefts: From the Mona Lisa to a priceless Vermeer
Sunday’s robbery at the Louvre is just the latest in a long line of spectacular heists that have taken place around the world over the course of the years
The mystery of the Mona Lisa is not in her smile, but in the ingredients Da Vinci used to paint her
A group of French analysts suggest that the Renaissance painter, who liked to experiment, used a mixture of oil with lead oxide for the first layer of La Gioconda