Episode 9 is Ella's love letter to the Mona Lisa. Join us for highlights of the painting's 500-year history, including time spent in a royal bathroom and at Napoleon's bedside, and the 1911 theft that propelled it from 'relatively obscure example of Renaissance portraiture' to 'global media darling'. We'll get into the events of the theft, how the criminal was caught, and where she was concealed for two years (hint: under the thief's dirty socks).
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Sources for this episode include:
“The theft that made the ‘Mona Lisa’ a masterpiece” by All Things Considered staff, (NPR), 2011
“The travels and travails of the Mona Lisa” by G. Garcia-French, Artstor, 2014
“Vincenzo Perruggia, the man who stole the Mona Lisa out of the Louvre Museum and made it a masterpiece” Vintage Everyday, 2018
“Treasures of the World: Mona Lisa” by PBS staff, 2018
Wikipedia articles on: Louis XIV, Louis V, Leonardo DaVinci, Mona Lisa, Vincenzo Peruggia, Palace of Fontainbleau, Lisa Gherardini, Uffizi, Napoleon
