On September 8, 2011, a masked man armed with a large-caliber,semi-automatic handgun robbed a private home in Houston, takingwith him an oil painting by French Impressionist Pierre AugusteRenoir, estimated to be worth $1 million. The crime is the latestaddition to the FBI's Top 10 Art Crimes, a list the bureau createdand has maintained following the 2003 looting of the Iraq NationalMuseum in Baghdad, in which some 10,000 archaeological artifactswere stolen. Since establishing the Top 10 list in 2005, the FBIhas seen six paintings and one sculpture recovered.

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1. Looted and StolenIraqi Artifacts

In March and April 2003, some 10,000 artifacts were taken fromthe Iraqi National Museum by U.S. Department of Defensecontractors, who used them as gifts or bribes, or sold them. Twocontractors were caught and sent to prison. Although the statue ofKing Entemena of Lagash (left) was found and returned to theGovernment of Iraq in 2006, some 7,000 to 10,000 artifacts remainmissing.

2. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft

During St. Patrick's Day celebrations on the night of March 17,1990, two men dressed as Boston police entered the museum, tied upthe two night guards, and stole 11 paintings by artists such asRembrandt, Degas, Manet, and Vermeer, and two artifacts, togetherworth up to $500 million. Some 23 years later, the museum is stilloffering a $5 million reward for their safe return.

3. Theft of Caravaggio's Nativity

In October 1969, two thieves robbed the Oratory of San Lorenzoin Palermo, Italy, removing from its frame the paintingNativity with San Lorenzo and San Francesco by Italianartist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). It isestimated to be worth $20 million.

4. Theft of the Davidoff-Morini Stradivarius

In October 1995, a $3 million Stradivarius violin was stolenfrom the New York City apartment of concert violinist Erica Morini.Made in 1727, the violin is known as the Davidoff-MoriniStradivarius.

5. The Van Gogh Museum Robbery

In December 2002, two thieves broke into the Amsterdam museumafter climbing to the roof. They took two paintings, valued at $30million: Van Gogh's View of the Sea at Scheveningen andCongregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen. Twomen were convicted for the theft, but the paintings have never beenrecovered.

6. Theft of Cezanne's View ofAuvers-sur-Oise

On New Year's Eve 1999, during the fireworks that celebrated thebeginning of the new millennium, a thief broke into the AshmoleanMuseum in Oxford, England and stole the landscape painting, valuedat 3 million British pounds.

7. Theft of Gertrude Vanderbilt WhitneyMurals

In July 2002, a burglar or burglars stole two oil paintings byMaxfield Parrish from a gallery in West Hollywood, Calif. Thepaintings, which were two panels from a series commissioned forGertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's 5th Ave. mansion in New York, werecut from their frames. They are valued at $4 million.

8. Theft from the Museu Chacara Do Ceu, Rio DeJaniero

On February 24, 2006, four paintings by Salvador Dali, HenriMatisse, Pablo Picasso, and Claude Monet, plus other art objects,were stolen from the museum by four armed men. No value for theartworks has been established. Pictured is one of the stolenpieces, Two Balconies by Salvador Dali.

9. Theft of A Cavalier from Art Gallery of NewSouth Wales

On June 10, 2007, A Cavalier, a self-portrait on woodpanel by Dutch Master Frans Van Mieris, was stolen from the ArtGallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. It is worth isestimated at some $1 million.

10. Theft of Renoir Oil Painting

On September 8, 2011, an armed robber broke into a Houston,Texas home and stole the 1918 painting Madeleine Leaning on HerElbow with Flowers in Her Hair by Pierre Auguste Renoir. Itwas taken with its frame. A private insurer has offered a $50,000reward for the painting's safe return.