NaN/100 votes#1 - The Lady in Gold
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/6/2007
Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer was one of the most famous paintings of the twentieth century. But in March 1938 it was seized by the Nazis. The golden portrait, commissioned by Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer of his wife, was one of six Klimts taken by the Germans.
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NaN/100 votes#2 - The Pharaoh's Head
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 4/13/2007
In 1994 the head of Scotland Yard's Art squad was called to the British Museum to investigate a case of suspected stolen Egyptian artefacts.
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NaN/100 votes#3 - Miami Sting
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/20/2007
Two Rubens paintings are lifted from a tiny gallery in a small town in northern Spain by a mysterious robber. One of pictures turns up in Stockholm. The robber is arrested and convicted but escapes and disappears.
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NaN/100 votes#4 - The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 4/27/2007
On a summers day in 1911 a man walked into the Louvre, took the Mona Lisa off the wall and walked out. He had stolen the world's most famous painting and thousands of people queued to see the empty space the painting had left.
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NaN/100 votes#5 - The Russian Conspiracy
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/4/2007
More than two hundred items with an estimated value of $5million, including jewellery and precious enamels, were discovered missing during a routine inventory check at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
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NaN/100 votes#6 - On the Trail of Moche Gold
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 5/11/2007
In 1988 a glittering golden headdress was looted from an ancient tomb in the desert of northern Peru – and disappeared. The octopus headdress with eight Medusa like tentacles belonged to one of the Moche lords a sophisticated culture that pre dated the Incas by 1000 years.
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NaN/100 votes#7 - The Disappeared
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 5/18/2007
The Disappeared vanished from the National Art Gallery in Buenos Aires. At the time Argentina was ruled by a ruthless military junta responsible for the torture and death of thousands of ‘disappeared’ members of the opposition.
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NaN/100 votes#8 - The Thieving Don Juan
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 5/25/2007
It’s four in the morning in the centre of Vienna. An alarm goes off at the seventh floor window of the Museum of Art History but the security guards don’t react. The next day one of the most important gold sculptures from the Renaissance is discovered stolen. It’s insurance value is a cool £35 million.
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The Best Episodes of Art of the Heist Season 2
Every episode of Art of the Heist Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Art of the Heist Season 2!
Investigating the most high profile art thefts of the 20th and 21st centuries, ‘Art of the Heist’ fits together the pieces of the crime jigsaw...
Genre:Documentary
Network:Ovation
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"The Lady in Gold" is the best rated episode of "Art of the Heist" season 2. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/6/2007. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "The Pharaoh's Head".