Monday 13th January 2025
Difficulty: Hard
Stolen artwork (Quiz #787)
Medea, 1868. Artist: Frederick Sandys. Photo by Birmingham Museums Trust (Unsplash)
1. Portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Francisco Goya was stolen from The National Gallery in London by bus driver Kempton Bunton on 21 August 1961. Why?
2. One of the most famous missing pieces of art is Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence by Caravaggio, which was stolen in 1969 from the church of San Lorenzo in Palermo. Which of these is NOT one of the accounts that has been given of its fate?
3. How many times has the Mona Lisa been stolen?
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