The widely popular painting by Leonardo Davinci was stolen once. However, the Mona Lisa has been vandalized several times. Well, I am pretty sure you won’t know about how the Mona Lisa was stolen and all about the robbery. Read on to found out more about the Mona Lisa Heist. This one’s not as fancy as the Money Heist, but it sure is mysterious and intriguing just like it. It was the year 1911, and the world was not as modernized as it is today. Many people were unaware of the painting. That is when on 21st August, The Mona Lisa was reported missing from the Louvre. Following the robbery, the museum was closed for a week as part of the investigation. Guilloche Apollinaire, the French poet, was one of the main suspects. He was arrested and imprisoned. Now you may have heard the name of his friend who was also bought in for questing. It was none other than Pablo Picasso. But they were not the ones who were behind this genius heist. The mastermind behind the robbery was Vincenzo Peruggia. He was a Louvre employee who was involved in constructing the glass of the painting. How he did the deed was by entering the museum during regular hours and then hiding in the broom closet. He then walked out of the museum after it was closed with the painting under his coat. Just as simple as that. Thanks to this robbery, for the popularity of the painting. The photograph of the painting was everywhere on newspapers and televisions. Peruggia was caught two years later, in 1913, after trying to sell the painting to the director of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Peruggia believed that the painting belonged in Italy from where it originated