Art of the Heist

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Across
  1. 4. _____ and grab
  2. 5. this FBI unit was formed in 2003 to recover artifacts stolen from the Iraq Museum
  3. 6. Art thief Vjeran Tomic was given this nickname for his penchant for scaling the sides ofbuildings in Paris to steal valuable items
  4. 9. “Poppy Flowers” by this Dutch artist has been stolen twice (two words)
  5. 11. The getaway vehicle when a Rembrandt was stolen for the second time
  6. 16. Jan van Eyck’s Ghent _______ is the most frequently stolen artwork in history
  7. 18. Maurizio Cattelan’s America, a fully functioning gold ________, was stolen from the Blenheim Palace
  8. 20. bullfight call
  9. 22. The Scream was stolen from this city on the opening day of the Olympics
  10. 24. Polish pirates stole Dutch painter Hans Memling’s The Last Judgement while it was traveling by ship to this Italian city
  11. 27. yellow fruit
  12. 28. prefix meaning not
  13. 29. Art forger Pei-Shen Qian used these to age paintings (two words)
Down
  1. 1. steak order
  2. 2. Gallery security worker
  3. 3. fried Hanukkah treats
  4. 4. The biggest unsolved art theft in history was from the Isabella __ Gardner Museum
  5. 7. Documentation that proves the authenticity of an artwork
  6. 8. Robbers of the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm in 2000 threw ______ on the road to obstruct police cars
  7. 10. paintings were stolen from the Whitworth Art Gallery in the UK supposedly to draw attention to its poor ________
  8. 12. involving more than one
  9. 13. separate
  10. 14. The theft of Rembrandt’s “__ Bartholomew” was part of the first ever armed art robbery
  11. 15. _____ Picasso is the most stolen artist
  12. 17. The thieves in Canada's largest art heist entered through this
  13. 19. sweet frozen dessert (two words)
  14. 21. therefore
  15. 23. Art thief Stephane Breitweiser was convinced he suffered from this syndrome
  16. 25. calf-length trousers
  17. 26. stealing artwork for ransom