Another attempt on the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci – an inadequate visitor threw a cake at the picture. The incident took place last night at the Louvre in Paris. One of the most famous paintings in the history of art was “attacked” by a cake. The vandal, as witnesses testified, was a man […]
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Exhibition in Delphi: unique exhibits of the Louvre
The exhibition “By the Light of Apollo: Louvre at Delphi” has opened at the Archaeological Museum of Delphi. The exhibition includes 28 rare masterpieces from the Louvre – ancient Greek, Cypriot and Egyptian artifacts, some of which date back to 1400 BC. , and unique works of art of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. […]
The story of how the Greeks fought the French and the Ottomans for the statue of Venus de Milo
Aphrodite of Milo, better known as Venus de Milo, is one of the most representative statues of the Hellenistic period Greek sculpture and one of the most famous sculptures Ancient Greece… Created sometime between 130 BC and AD 100, she personifies Aphrodite (called Venus in Roman mythology), the goddess of love and beauty. The statue […]