Let's trace the steps of the most iconic painting ever created, to find out how the Mona Lisa went from a bathroom to the Louvre. The painting hung there for four years before being moved to the Grand Gallery of the Louvre Museum in 1804, where it remained until the infamous 1911 heist by Vincenzo Peruggia, who illegally carried the Mona Lisa off to Italy. At the onset of WWII in 1939, the beloved masterpiece was taken away in an ambulance stretcher, carefully placed in a padded wooden crate, and sent off to the French countryside to protect it from the Nazi's, who had written instructions to seize the Mona Lisa.
Author: Logan DeLoye
Published at: 2026-03-21 00:00:00
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