Guillaume Apollinaire returned one of the stolen statues to the French newspaper the "Paris-Journal". Apollinaire implicated his friend Picasso, who was also brought in for questioning in the theft of the "Mona Lisa", but he was also exonerated. The theft of the "Mona Lisa" was perpetrated by Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian house painter who acted alone and was only caught two years later when he tried to sell the painting in Florence. Apollinaire wrote the preface for the first Cubist exposition outside of Paris; "VIII Salon des Indépendants", Brussels, 1911. In an open-handed preface to the catalogue of the Brussels Indépendants show,
Vincenzo Monaco movement in Italy, particularly during the years of reconstruction after World War II, he was awarded the honor of Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic on 25 November 1968. In 2015, he was honored with the painter Giuseppe Capogrossi as "Studio Monaco Luccichenti" at the MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome, in the free permanent exhibition. Vincenzo Monaco Vincenzo Monaco (20 July 1911 Rome – 3 March 1969, Rome) was an Italian architect who collaborated with Amedeo Luccichenti from 1933 to 1963. During this period, Monaco designed more than 450 projects,