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The Mona Lisa became world-famous partly because it was stolen.

In 1911 Vincenzo Peruggia, a former Louvre worker, walked out of the museum with it hidden under his coat. It was missing for over two years, and the worldwide headlines made it the most recognised painting on Earth.

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