Listener Favorites--Number 3, Part 2: Is the Mona Lisa a Fake? (Season 1, Episode 1)
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The Unexpected, the Odd, and the Wonderful in Art History
Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, had been gone for nearly two and a half years. In December of 1913, an art dealer in Florence was contacted by someone calling himself Leonardo. He agreed to meet this so-called Leonardo at his hotel where he would hand over the painting. The man who claimed to be Leonardo turned out to be Vicenzo Peruja, a former Louvre employee whose trade was as a glacier.
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