37: Stealing the Mona Lisa

An Old Timey Podcast

True Crime, History, Comedy

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🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Back in 1911, the Mona Lisa didn’t get a lot of attention. Art critics considered it an excellent example of a painting from the renaissance era, but the general public wasn’t nearly so enamored.

That changed in August of that year, when someone plucked it off the wall of the Louvre, busted it out of its glass box and frame, and took off with it.

Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Kristin pulled from:
“Who stole the Mona Lisa?” by Simon Kuper for Slate
“Stolen: How the Mona Lisa became the world’s most famous painting,” by James Zug for Smithsonian Magazine
“Stealing Mona Lisa,” by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler for Vanity Fair
The documentary “Mona Lisa is Missing”
“When Picasso went on trial for stealing the Mona Lisa,” by Ian Shank for Artsy.net
“The man who stole the Mona Lisa,” by Laura Cumming for The Guardian
“The Theft That Made The ‘Mona Lisa’ A Masterpiece,” NPR.org

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0:00.0	Hear ye, hear ye.
0:03.3	You are listening to an old-timey podcast.
0:06.8	I'm Kristen Caruso.
0:08.4	And people hate to see me go, but they love to watch me leave.
0:12.7	With that honky-tong, by don'tca-dunk.
0:15.7	And on this episode, I'll be talking...
0:17.8	I didn't get to say my name.
0:19.2	Oh, I'm sorry.
0:21.0	Go ahead. I'm sorry. I'm say my name. Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead.
0:21.9	I'm sorry.
0:22.5	I'm Norman Caruso.
0:24.9	And he's sad.
0:26.9	He slinks out of the bar, but we love to watch him leave.
0:30.9	And on this episode, I'll be talking about the theft of the Mona Lisa.
0:37.2	Wait a minute.
0:40.9	That's pretty dramatic.
0:42.5	Oh, it's dramatic, all right.
0:44.1	You know anything about this, Norm?
0:46.0	I know you covered it on your old decrepit rotting podcast.
0:49.8	Don't you dare say that.
0:51.4	The maggots, you just brush them off of that thing.
0:55.3	Yeah, this is a story I covered on Let's Go to Court.
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