Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The brazen theft of priceless jewels from the Louvre Museum in broad daylight, roughly 30 minutes after the world's most-visited museum opened for the day, has sent shockwaves through France, but the country is far from the first to be stung by art thieves.
Here are 10 other large, bold thefts of priceless pieces of art around the world.
Casual theft at Russia's Tretyakov Gallery
Surveillance footage revealed that a 31-year-old man casually pulled a $185,000 landscape painted in 1908 by Arkhip Kuindhzi off the wall during an exhibition at the gallery before calmly walking past patrons at the show without being questioned.
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