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He offered a patriotic story: that the work belonged in Italy. Leonardo had brought the portrait to France himself, and it had long been in the French royal collection. The court treated a motive speech as a motive speech, not as title to the panel. It made the face universally famous. Specialists already ranked the portrait high.
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1911 Mona Lisa theft · When did the painting return?
It was authenticated in Florence in December 1913, shown briefly in Italy and returned to the Louvre in January 1914. It has remained in the French national collection since, now in the Salle des États. No. Apollinaire was arrested because of an earlier, separate Louvre theft of small Iberian sculptures by an acquaintance. Picasso was questioned. Both were cleared of the Mona Lisa.
1911 Mona Lisa theft · Why did Peruggia say he took it?
He offered a patriotic story: that the work belonged in Italy. Leonardo had brought the portrait to France himself, and it had long been in the French royal collection. The court treated a motive speech as a motive speech, not as title to the panel. It made the face universally famous. Specialists already ranked the portrait high.
1911 Mona Lisa theft · Is the case unsolved?
No. The status is convicted. The object was recovered. Remaining arguments are about Peruggia's exact help, if any, and about how much the press inflated later legends — not about who took the panel. Peruggia is the convicted thief on the public record. Later rumours of a wider plot have not replaced the Florence judgment with a second dock of masterminds.
1911 Mona Lisa theft · Geri and the Uffizi
A man offering the painting contacts Florentine dealer Alfredo Geri. Uffizi director Giovanni Poggi examines the panel. The painting's modern bulletproof hang and ticketed crowds are the long echo of 1911–14 fame, not of a still-missing work.
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No. The status is convicted. The object was recovered. Remaining arguments are about Peruggia's exact help, if any, and about how much the press inflated later legends — not about who took the panel. Peruggia is the convicted thief on the public record. Later rumours of a wider plot have not replaced the Florence judgment with a second dock of masterminds.
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A man offering the painting contacts Florentine dealer Alfredo Geri. Uffizi director Giovanni Poggi examines the panel. The painting's modern bulletproof hang and ticketed crowds are the long echo of 1911–14 fame, not of a still-missing work.
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