ON THIS DAY IN 1911, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “‘La Jaconde,’ the masterpiece of Leonardo da Vinci, has disappeared from the Salon Carre of the Louvre, where it occupied the place of honor. The great museum has been searched from cellars to attics in vain … Just a year and a month ago, the […]
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