The heist at the Louvre in Paris on Sunday is the latest major robbery of artworks and precious objects from museums.

Here are some precedents:

The Mona Lisa, The Louvre

The Louvre, the world’s most visited art museum, has been targeted more than once over the years.

The most audacious incident was the theft of Leonardo de Vinci’s iconic “Mona Lisa” on August 21, 1911.

Suspicion initially fell on poet Guillaume Apollinaire and artist Pablo Picasso.

But the culprit turned out to be an Italian glazier who had helped frame the museum’s paintings and knew his way round the building.

Glazier Vincenzo Perugia hid the Renaissance masterpiece in his Paris home for two years before trying to sell the portrait to a Florentine dealer.

The risky venture backfired. The dealer raised the alarm

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