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The Mona Lisa Theft

The Mona Lisa was painted in the 1500s. Leonardo Da Vinci painted it while he was living in Florence. It is the portrait of a woman with a landscape at her back. The portrait shows harmony in the woman’s smile and a connection with nature.

Mona Lisa became famous in the 1860s while the art critics were studying this important symbol from the Renaissance period. Everybody learned about Mona Lisa when the painting disappeared from the Louvre Museum in France. Vincenzo Peruggia planned the crime in 1911. Three Italian men stayed inside the gallery during the night. The next day, while people were visiting the museum, they stole the painting. Peruggia was trying to sell the Mona Lisa in the black market, when the police announced the robbery, and he had to keep it for two years. In 1913, Peruggia was doing business with an art dealer, but he reported Peruggia to the police. The police arrested and sent Peruggia to prison. Now the French government is the owner of Mona Lisa, and people admire this art work in the Louvre Museum in France.

1. Read the text. Are these sentences True (T) or False (F)? Correct the false information on the line.

a. Mona Lisa became famous in the 1500s (  )

b. First, the painting was popular among the art critics ( __ )

c. Then, everybody knew about the Mona Lisa when it appeared in the Louvre Museum (_)

d. Three Italian men took the painting during the night ( __ )

e. An art dealer reported Perugia to the police ( __ )

f. The Italian government is the owner of the Mona Lisa ( __ )

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