A new Netflix documentary explores the world's biggest art heist - here are 11 times famous artwork was stolen and recovered

Talia LakritzApr 7, 2021, 21:53 IST

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa on display in Paris.Raphael Gaillarde/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

The new Netflix docuseries "This Is A Robbery" explores the history of the still-unsolved Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist in 1990.
While the art has never been found, investigators in other major cases have had more luck.
A New York resident stumbled upon a $1 million stolen painting in a pile of trash on the curb.

Netflix's new docuseries "This Is A Robbery" investigates the world's biggest art heist in which $500 million worth of art was stolen from a Boston museum.

A still from "This Is A Robbery." Netflix

Dutch art detective Arthur Brand has recovered so many pieces that he's known as the "Indiana Jones of the art world."

Arthur Brand is an art detective. Niklas Halle'n/AFP/Getty Images

Brand recovered a 1,600-year-old mosaic from the Byzantine era that had been missing for over 40 years in 2018.

Arthur Brand poses with the mosaic of St. Mark from around 550 AD. Jan Hennop/AFP/Getty Images

In 2015, he helped Berlin police track down bronze horse sculptures by Josef Thorak that were commissioned by Nazis.

Arthur Brand poses with photos of sculptures made for Adolf Hitler's imposing Reich Chancellery. Piroschka van de Wouw/AFP/Getty Images

He also recovered two Spanish Visigoth carvings that were stolen in 2004.

Arthur Brand with the limestone Visigoth carvings. Niklas Halle'n/AFP/Getty Images

Five paintings stolen from the Isaac Levitan House Museum in Russia in 2014 were found nearly three years later.

The stolen paintings displayed at the Isaac Levitan House Museum. Vladimir Smirnov\TASS via Getty Images

Police in Turkey recovered "Woman Dressing Her Hair" by Pablo Picasso in 2016 after it was stolen from a collector in New York.

Turkish police hold up "Woman Dressing Her Hair" by Pablo Picasso. AFP/STR/Getty Images

Rembrandt's "Child with a Soap Bubble" was stolen from a museum in 1999 and was missing for 15 years before it was found.

"Child with a Soap Bubble" after its recovery in 2014. Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images

"The Madonna of the Yarnwinder" by Leonardo da Vinci was stolen in 2003 and found in 2007.

A security guard at the National Gallery of Scotland stands beside the Leonardo da Vinci painting "Madonna of the Yarnwinder." Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images News

Elizabeth Gibson stumbled upon a $1 million stolen painting by Rufino Tamayo on the street in New York City.

Elizabeth Gibson with Rufino Tamayo's "Tres Personajes." Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images

The Mona Lisa's theft from the Louvre in 1911 helped make it one of the most recognizable paintings in the world.

The Mona Lisa hangs in the Louvre in Paris. Amel Pain/AP

Two Edvard Munch paintings were stolen at gunpoint from the Munch Museum in Norway in 2004 and found two years later.

"The Scream" by Edvard Munch on display in Oslo, Norway. Solum, Stian Lysberg/AFP/Getty Images

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