Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1908 — VANDALISM IN LOUVRE. [ARTICLE]

VANDALISM IN LOUVRE.

Bteause of the Destruction of Paint* Inge They Are to Be Incased. Another act of vandalism at the Louvre has been committed. Jußt before the museum closed for the day a girl took from her pocket a pair of scissors and deliberately lacerated Ingres’ fine picture of the Slstine chapel, piercing the eyes of the pope and three cardinals. A guardian, who was a witness of the act, arrested the girl, who stated that she disfigured the picture that she might he taken into custody. This is the third outrage of the kind committed in the Louvre within two months, and it Is felt that if the priceless collections there are to be adequately saieguarded radical reforms must be introduced in the surveillance of the galleries and their contents. As a result, it has been decided that certain pieces of sculpture—notably the famous Venus of Milo—are to be the object of special protection. Glass is to be placed in front of several chefs d’oeuvre of painting, and, in addition to an increase in the number of guardians, fifty plain clothes policemen are to be added to the staff. — Modern Society.