Leonardo's Mona Lisa

Vincenzo Peruja was working at the Louvre, cleaning canvases and putting them under glass when he learned that Napoleon had stolen many works of art. As an Italian patriot, he resented the fact that this national treasure was hanging in a foreign gallery. He lifted it off the wall and smuggled it out, concealed beneath his smock. For two years, he kept the Mona Lisa in a trunk in his apartment. Being involved in a heist gave Lisa a gloss and glamour that few artworks can compete with - you can't buy that sort of publicity. And from there, things just took off. Marcel de Chondra, moustache, and a

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