(CNN)In the world of Hollywood, the art thief has become something of a romantic legend.
But away from the big screen, art looting is big business.
From Vincenzo Peruggia, the man who stole the Mona Lisa in 1911 through to Adam Worth, the master criminal who is thought to be the inspiration behind "Moriarty" in Arthur Conan Doyle"s tales of Sherlock Holmes, art thieves have been pursued across the world by police and detectives.
"The Scream" was one of two Edvard Munch paintings that were stolen from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, in 2004.
Three men pulled off the raid in broad daylight before being arrested in 2006.
"I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood," Munch wrote, describing how the idea for the painting came about.
"I stopped and leaned against the fence, feeling unspeakably tired. Tongues of fire and blood stretched over the bluish black fjord. My friends went on walking, while I lagged behind, shivering with fear. Then I heard the enormous, infinite scream of nature."
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