Art possesses the special ability to captivate human emotion, imagination, and cultural history in a manner that is impossible to convey through words. Throughout the centuries, some art pieces have ...

Myles Connor walked into the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and walked out with a Rembrandt painting in the 1980s.

Museum heists, particularly ones involving historic and valuable items, have shocked the world and inspired mystery and ...

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Thieves reportedly stole nine pieces of valuable jewellery from the Louvre on Sunday, but it's not the first daring heist at ...

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The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch is internationally renowned for the palpable sense of angst and anguish in his Expressionist and Symbolist works. But fans of his might feel similarly upon learning ...

The Louvre has a long history of thefts and attempted robberies. The most famous came in 1911, when the Mona Lisa vanished ...

Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is known to have created 36 pieces of artwork during his life, including his most famous painting, "Girl with a Pearl Earring." The painting depicts a woman, but it's not ...

After 28 months, Vincenzo Perugia was arrested for the theft of the Mona Lisa. Shown here is the transfer of the painting from the Italian Ministry of Public Instruction to France. Bettmann / Corbis ...

This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. Art has always been a reflection of humanity's cultural, social, and emotional landscapes. Across centuries, painters have used their ...