Cool article about the Mona Lisa

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There was another interesting article in the May issue of Vanity Fair, about when the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre.
 
PaulSF said:
There was another interesting article in the May issue of Vanity Fair, about when the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre.
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Just read a book about that a couple of months ago... pretty interesting.

Interesting article here too, thank you.
 
I watched a documentary the other day about a painting that was stolen. The thieves were pretty sly. What they did was break through the roof and sat in the drop ceiling. They found the alarm and tripped it. The police showed up and found nothing. They tripped it again. Police show up and find nothing. Again they trip it.... After 10 calls the police and owners figure the alarm is broke and quit responding. After they trip it a few more times and no police show up they cut the canvases from their bars and roll em and walk out the front door.
 
That was sounding pretty clever up till the "cut the canvas from the bars" part. :eek: Reminds me of the movie The Thomas Crown Affair (the remake), in which he appears to FOLD up a stolen painting to put it into his briefcase. (It later appears to have suffered no damage- not even a broken stretcher. :shrug:)
:nuts: Rick
 
Rick Granick said:
That was sounding pretty clever up till the "cut the canvas from the bars" part. :eek: Reminds me of the movie The Thomas Crown Affair (the remake), in which he appears to FOLD up a stolen painting to put it into his briefcase. (It later appears to have suffered no damage- not even a broken stretcher. :shrug:)
:nuts: Rick
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That ruined the movie for me haha
 
I predict a rash of art thefts when you all retire, after all you guys know where all the good stuff is. Not that I would ever do such a thing...ever...for the record!:p
 
Also found was a hidden picture of Mona with the artist, confirming speculation about their secret relationship.
;) Rick

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Yea the left the frame up and everything. They cut right along the rabbit. There was paint all over the floor.
 
The article was interesting but I truly worry about the two people that made remarks about it at the end...

Westprep 22 and daoduangnoi

:nuts:

YIKES!
 
Dave said:
The article was interesting but I truly worry about the two people that made remarks about it at the end...

Westprep 22 and daoduangnoi

:nuts:

YIKES!
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Reading the commentaries after just about any article or essay found on the web is a frightening and eye-opening peek into the general state of misguided semi-literate blathering that passes for discourse these days. It makes you realize just how above-average a group we have here on the Grumble, for the most part.
:kaffeetrinker_2: Rick
 
I often wonder why websites with better, more intellectual (as it were) content allow such asinine commentary - wouldn't you think someone would screen comments?

That is why the first thing I did when I started my blog was to disable the comment feature.
 
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