Disappeared in: 2000 Reward offered: Undisclosed As Oxford’s revellers were welcoming in the Millenium, a criminal used the opportunity to break into the city’s Ashmolean Museum and steal Cezanne’s painting, View of Auvers-sur-Oise. The painting is still unlocated, although no…
Eduardo de Valfierno, who referred to himself as Marqués (marquis), was an Argentine con man who allegedly masterminded the theft of the Mona Lisa. Valfierno paid several men to steal the work of art from the Louvre, including museum employee…
Missing: The Amber Room was completed at Catherine Palace in 1770, but was stolen by the Nazis in 1941. It was taken to Koenigsberg Castle, in what was then in East Prussia, but disappeared in January 1945. The castle is…
The Concert The largest art theft in world history occurred in Boston on March 18, 1990 when thieves stole 13 pieces, collectively and altogether worth $300 million, from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Among the pieces stolen was Vermeer’s The…
The unexplained mystery of the missing masterpiece It was lost for so long that it had assumed mythical status for art historians. Some doubted whether it even existed. But a 500-year-old mystery was apparently solved today after a painting attributed…
