Vincenzo Peruggia

Description: (Italian Museum Worker Best Known for Stealing the 'Mona Lisa' Painting on 21 August 1911)
Known as the man who stole the Mona Lisa, La Giaconda was an amateur artist and a worker at the Louvre. Though he hid the painting in his apartment in Paris and then took it to Florence, he failed to sell it, and was eventually caught by the police after 2 years.

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Birthday October 8, 1881 (Libra)
Born In Dumenza, Varese, Italy
Died on October 8, 1925
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