Musicals supremo Andrew Lloyd Webber is shifting his focus to probably the most well-known portray on this planet—Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa housed on the Louvre. Lloyd Webber is understood for blockbuster musical hits equivalent to Jesus Christ Celebrity, Cats and Phantom of the Opera. However now his curiosity is piqued by one of the vital audacious heists in artwork historical past which happened in 1911 when Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre worker, stole the honored portray, just for it to be recovered late 1913 when the dastardly thief tried to promote it to an antiques seller in Florence referred to as Alfredo Geri.
“The opposite [musical] I’m engaged on is the true story of the theft of the Mona Lisa. It’s a real story about how the Mona Lisa disappeared for 3 years and ended up in Italy. Greater than that I can not actually inform you for the easy cause that I’m going away subsequent week to write down it,” Lloyd Webber instructed the UK theatre information website The Stage. The enigmatic portrait of a smiling girl is broadly believed to be Lisa Gherardini, the spouse of a rich Florentine service provider.
