Musicals supremo Andrew Lloyd Webber is shifting his focus to the most well-known portray in the world—Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa housed at the Louvre. Lloyd Webber is understood for blockbuster musical hits reminiscent of Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats and Phantom of the Opera. But now his curiosity is piqued by one in every of the most audacious heists in artwork historical past which came about in 1911 when Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre worker, stole the commemorated portray, just for it to be recovered late 1913 when the dastardly thief tried to promote it to an antiques supplier in Florence referred to as Alfredo Geri.
“The different [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. More than that I can’t actually let you know for the easy motive that I’m going away subsequent week to write down it,” Lloyd Webber advised 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.
