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The abduction of famous paintings in the world is quite common a crime, since such paintings are in great demand among wealthy collectors willing to pay for them sometimes huge amount. On the other hand, the removal of paintings from the museum to some it seems to criminals a simpler thing than, say, rob banks. This is exactly what the abduction cases confirm. famous paintings, which will be discussed in this article. we specially selected unusual abductions, and with a happy end, although there are many paintings in the world that were never found.
The Return of the Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci stole the famous “Mona Lisa” in 1911 from Louvre Italian Vincenzo Perugia. And not for the purpose of selling, as then it turned out: the Italian, in love with this portrait, just wanted to return the “Mona Lisa” to their homeland. And so he took her to Italy, and two years later, when the passion for the “abduction of the century” calmed down a bit, proposed a painting by Alfredo Jerry – owner of the Florentine galleries. However, he immediately reported this to the police. And after of some ordeals, Mona Lisa returned to the Louvre in 1914. To clarify, Vincenzo Perugia worked as a house painter in the Louvre, and allowed him to take out the picture without much difficulty.
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Rembrandt Takeaway
So the people nicknamed a small portrait of “Jacob de Hein III” Rembrandt, which was carried out by robbers from the Dalwich picture London galleries four times. The reason for this, apparently, lies in the size of this picture (with a book), which makes it easy to hide even in wide pocket of clothes.
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However, in the Guinness Book of Records, this portrait was not only because he was so “loved” by robbers. Fact that neither one of them did not suffer punishment: they simply were not found. How is the picture was returning to the gallery? In the most amazing way. First time the painting was found in the cemetery, the second time – in the trunk a bicycle thrown by someone, the third time she was left in a taxi, but the fourth time a portrait was discovered in Germany in a locker (again, in a strange way no one came for him). Like this Rembrandt’s little masterpiece was taken out of the museum in the form of some kind of jokes. Or the picture was very strong, almost mystical “energy return” …
The fastest robbery
Robbers of Brazil managed to drag from the Art Museum in San Paulo immediately two paintings: Pablo Picasso “Portrait of Suzanne Bloch” and Candido Portinari “Coffee Picker”. We will do it literally in the time the guards checked the establishment before closing it, spending for everything about everything less than three minutes.
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But the robbers did not take into account the main thing: the museum did not establish time alarm, but because their speed was not even very necessary, but there were surveillance cameras that recorded faces of unlucky thieves. And thanks to that they were caught the police literally a few days later, in the house of one of them discovered already stolen for transportation stolen canvases. The Art Museum only won: the city the government immediately allocated him money to set an alarm.
The easiest ways to steal museum paintings
Remember the Soviet film “The Return of St. Luke” with beautiful the game of Vladislav Dvorzhetsky and Oleg Basilashvili? But his plot was based on real events. Theft of museum paintings at night, hiding for this ahead of time among the exhibits of the museum itself, – quite common method. The most famous (impudent and the time is instantly disclosed) is considered the abduction of twenty Vincent Van Gogh paintings from the Amsterdam Museum wearing it name.
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The triumph of the robbers was fanatically short, their arrested half an hour after they left the building picture gallery.
But the events of no less famous Soviet film “Old robbers” with the participation of Yuri Nikulin and Evgeny Evstigneev starring (a frame from this cinema masterpiece of the USSR in above) seem completely improbable, caused only by a stormy fantasy scriptwriter. However, here you are mistaken, moreover, the last abduction of this kind occurred in the Tretyakov galleries most recently – January 27 this year. Canvas “Ai-Petri. Crimea “Arkhip Kuindzhi would be filmed in full view of a man who, like and in the film, visitors and museum workers take for the restorer.
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True, the Moscow police quickly figured out a thief, and also soon returned the stolen cloth to its rightful place. At the same time “Tretyakov” again only benefited from this: now all of her the paintings will be equipped with electronic safety sensors.
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