Description acceptable. A 2023 Michael Finkle book calls this action “a dangerous obsession” and profiles one of the most successful performers of it, Stéphane Breitwieser. In 1972, three men in Montreal performed this action after rappelling from a broken skylight. Guillaume Apollonaire was arrested on suspicion of having performed an instance of this action that was actually carried out by (*) Vincenzo Peruggia. Two men posed as police following a St. Patrick’s Day party to accomplish one instance of this crime. A note reading “Thanks for the poor security” was left following a successful instance of this crime. The largest unsolved crime of this type occurred in Boston when the collection of Isabella Stewart Gardner was pillaged. For 10 points, what type of crime resulted in the Mona Lisa going missing from the Louvre for two years? ■END■
ANSWER: art heist [or art theft; or stealing art; or art robbery; or any answer indicating the theft/stealing of paintings/works of art; accept the theft of specific works of art such as The Scream or Mona Lisa; accept the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Robbery or Isabella Stewart Gardner Robbery; prompt on theft, heist, robbery, stealing and word forms by asking “of what?”]
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