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Layout of the Louvre

Oct 11, 2016 21:23

The setting is the Louvre, Paris, 1911

I need a way from Location A to the Mona Lisa, by way of a staircase (either by using one or passing one)I have two characters stealing the Mona Lisa, and I need a route for them to walk. At the moment I start them in front of the Denon Wing, room 77, at Liberty leading the People, and I want to move them to ( Read more... )

~architecture, france: history, 1910-1919, ~arts: visual arts

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thtwzjustadream October 12 2016, 04:24:39 UTC

It's been nine years, but I think I remember the layout pretty well. You walk up a staircase from ground to first, and at the top is the winged victory of Samothrace - pretty famous statue, and very striking. It's almost against the wall at the top of the steps.

You walk right, through the keyhole-shaped hallway entrance you can see in some of the pics on the link above, and you go down a fairly standard museum hallway - wide but not overly so, with rooms right and left. Then the Mona Lisa is on the right. It's on the far wall of a very large, very open-space room. There aren't many places to hide, though you can see a bit of an alcove-like setback at the right hand side of the pic. If my memory is correct, there might be a doorway and a kind of back-exit at the far left, though I haven't searched around for pics that might show it. I think I recall that, though. It makes sense they'd have more than one way out of a room with a piece of art that valuable in it ( ... )

alextiefling October 12 2016, 09:14:54 UTC

You do realise that the Louvre's collection in 1911 was displayed in a completely different way to how it was in 2007, right?

thtwzjustadream October 12 2016, 13:12:31 UTC

True- apparently the painting was in room six of the wing in 1911 - and did not have a wall to itself, based on the picture here. It's in room three now. The Winged Victory statue has been in its current place at the top of the staircase leading from the ground level to the first floor since the late 1880s.

camille_miko October 12 2016, 05:58:10 UTC

The Louvre was very very different in 1911. No really security and lot of more painting in room. You can find old pictures of The Louvre here : https://fr.pinterest.com/pin/439804719843287961/
In 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia had stole The Joconde. When it had been find her, she was exposed again, like that : https://lesyeuxdargus.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/joconde-aux-offices.png (yeah, it's policemen around to protect her)