Louvre
About Louvre
The Louvre is a national art museum in Paris, France. It is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement (district) and home to some of the most canonical works of Western art, including the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and Winged Victory. The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally built in the late 12th to 13th century under Philip II. Remnants of the Medieval Louvre fortress are visible in the basement of the museum. Due to urban expansion, the fortress eventually lost its defensive function, and in 1546 Francis I converted it into the primary residence of the French kings.
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When the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, visitor numbers actually rose as people queued to look at the blank space on the wall, making it a record year and the first time anyone had to queue to get in.
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The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia, an Italian who had worked for a glazier firm the Louvre hired to put its paintings under glass and who resented being insulted by the French as a macaroni eater.
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Picasso was once interviewed by the police as a suspect in the theft of the Mona Lisa.
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Two statue heads stolen from the Louvre ended up hidden under clothes in Picasso's wardrobe, having reached him via Apollinaire's secretary Pierre.
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