The Skylight Caper: Canada's Biggest Unsolved Art Heist
One the world's greatest unsolved art thefts happened in Montréal, Québec, Canada, in 1972. Seventeen paintings remain missing, and the cat burglars behind the incident have never been apprehended. In...
22 Nov 202228min
Who Was Jacob de Gheyn III and Why Do People Keep Stealing His Portrait?
“We have some bad news, sir. The Rembrandt is gone again,” the investigating officer told the gallery director at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Rembrandt painted during the 17th century, and as part of...
15 Nov 202224min
Title Who Really Stole Goya's 'The Duke'?
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, is probably best remembered for his defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. A military general, he became a leading military and political figure of 19th-century Brit...
8 Nov 202239min
The Day Polish Pirates Pinched the Last Judgment
For some, the Book of Revelation in the New Testament of the Christian bible is an apocalyptic prophecy, involving the second coming of Christ and the judgment of souls. And the imagery for that inter...
1 Nov 202232min
The Heist That Turned the Mona Lisa Into a Star
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa has been described as, “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world.” She's been immortalize...
25 Okt 202235min
The Time 5 Thieves Paid an Entrance Fee to Steal 9 Paintings
Art heists can often look and sound like something out of a Hollywood script. One time, two thieves lifted two Van Gogh paintings from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, and they entered the premises t...
18 Okt 202223min
Did the Sicilian Mafia Really Feed Caravaggio’s Nativity to the Pigs?
Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence considered a 17th century masterpiece, created by Italian painter Caravaggio in 1609. Nativity has been missing since it was nicked by thieves in Palermo in ...
11 Okt 202227min
Welcome to the Season 7 Finale of Criminalia: The Treasonists
Author and historian Andro Linklater once said, “Some people are born to treachery.” It seems like it. It was an season of interesting moments, for sure. Treason, pretty generally, is the crime of bet...
4 Okt 202244min
