Vincenzo Peruggia - in Media

In Media

  • He was portrayed in an early German soundfilm by Willi Forst in 1931, and in a television-miniseries called The Man Who Stole La Gioconda by Alessandro Preziosi in 2006.
  • In an April 1956 episode of the TV-show You Are There, called "The Recovery of the Mona Lisa (December 10, 1913)", Peruggia is played by Vito Scotti, who reprised the role in yet another TV-reconstruction of the famous theft, this time for the TV-show G.E. True. The episode was called The Tenth Mona Lisa and aired in March 1963.
  • In Season 2, Episode 7 of the American produced television series Leverage, the theft of the Mona Lisa was quoted and the duplicates of the painting that were created are referenced as a story telling device.
  • A similar con using duplicates painted by Da Vinci himself is portrayed in the 1979 Doctor Who story City of Death.
  • On 6 April 2010, the downloadable content pack "Kasumi's Stolen Memories" for the video game Mass Effect 2, had his name mentioned as the password to a villainous art thief's vault with a subsequent statement to the significance of the name. In the DLC "The Lair of the Shadow Broker", it is revealed that a squad member from the game, Kasumi Goto, is the current owner of the painting in the Mass Effect universe.
  • The story of Peruggia is recounted at the beginning of Chapter 12 in Daniel Silva's The Rembrandt Affair (Gabriel Allon) which was originally published in July 2010.
  • Art Historian Noah Charney's 2011 monograph, "The Theft of the Mona Lisa: On Stealing the Worlds Most Famous Painting" (ARCA Publications) is the most recent full account of the theft and its ramifications.

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