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Vincenzo Peruggia was born Pietro Vincenzo Antonio Peruggia, the son of Celeste Rossi e Giacomo Peruggia, on 8 October 1881 in Dumenza, a small village in the Alps of Italy near the border of Switzerland. [2] For a brief period after having moved to Paris in 1908, Peruggia obtained work at the Louvre, cleaning and reframing paintings. [3]
In 1963, Scotti was cast as the Italian farmer Vincenzo Peruggia in the episode "The Tenth Mona Lisa" of the CBS anthology series, General Electric True, hosted by Jack Webb. In the episode set in the year 1911, Peruggia steals the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum in Paris but is apprehended by a French detective when he attempts to unload the ...
Vincenzo Peruggia (1881–1925), an Italian thief who stole the Mona Lisa on 21 August 1911, died in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés. [8] Laurent Pimond (born 6 April 1965 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés) is a former French footballer. [9] Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983) was the only woman in the group of composers known as Les Six. [10]
Two years later, Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian patriot who claimed that he stole the painting to return it to the homeland of Leonardo da Vinci, was arrested in Florence and the painting was recovered. [56] At 3:08 pm, President Taft signed the joint resolution offering American statehood to Arizona and New Mexico. [57]
Recovered after the thief, Vincenzo Peruggia, attempted to sell it. Assessed in 1962 at $100 million. [37] Adjusted for inflation, it would be worth $782 million today. Femme Assise by Pablo Picasso: July 1940: 2012: Paul Rosenberg, Paris One of around 450 paintings looted from the collection of Paul Rosenberg by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter ...
(Vincenzo Peruggia is arrested and the painting returned 1913.) ... 1 August – André Guinier, physicist (died 2000) 11 August – Louis Dumont, anthropologist ...
The stolen Mona Lisa was recovered in Florence after Vincenzo Peruggia was arrested while trying to sell it. ... Died: Bonnor Middleton, 48, South African cricketer, ...
In 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia is a poverty-stricken Italian glazier who falls in love with Mathilde, a French hotel maid. Struck by the girl's resemblance to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Vicenzo steals the painting from the Louvre in hopes of impressing her. When she proves to be fickle, the crestfallen hero confesses and is arrested.