Born into a poor family from a small Italian Alpine village, Vincenzo Peruggia moves to Paris at the age of 20, in search of a better life. Once in Paris, Vincenzo starts work as a house painter.

In 1911, during one of the most notorious art heists of all time, the Italian-born Vincenzo Peruggia stole the painting from the Louvre with plans to return it to his home country. His plan was ...

It wasn’t until two years later that the culprit would be discovered: Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian immigrant working in France as a decorator, whose job had given him access to the Louvre.