«A horrible and immense hole», exclaimed a journalist from Le Figaro seeing the desolate aspect of the Louvre wall where weeks before had hung The Mona Lisa. After the robbery, the visits to the museum increased in such a way that the newspapers satirized about it: «some people like works of art by themselves, others by the place they occupy», said a headline. The Italian carpenter who, one summer morning in 1911, removed La Gioconda […]