Mona Lisa he stresses that the images never existed. Kemp is also adamant that Cotte’s images in no way establish the existence of a separate underlying portrait. On 21 August 1911, the painting was stolen from the Louvre. The theft was not discovered until the next day, when painter Louis Béroud walked into the museum and went to the Salon Carré where the "Mona Lisa" had been on display for five years, only to find four iron pegs on the wall. Béroud contacted the head of the guards, who thought the painting was being photographed for promotional purposes. A few hours later,
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,