Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Paris art museum theft



Back in may of this year five paintings where stolen from the Luvere in Paris France. These included works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse ,Georges Braque, Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger. The value of the paintings was 100 million euros or 138.2 million US dollars. The theft is currently still being investigated by the Brigade de Répression du Banditisme, France's elite police armed robbery unit.
Okay its so not happy to steal famous art works. At least they had the common decency to take them out of the frames careful rather than slice them out for convince. So where ever they are at least as far as we know they are in tact. 

Acropolis

 This is a shot of the acropolis from above.
This is a layout of it from above . It is made up of many buildings instead of just the Parthenon. (which is #1 on the chart) The Old temple of Athena is next to it (#2) and the temple of Athena Nike is in the front as you come up the path(#6) The Acropolis is a huge landmark that over looks the city state of Athens and in ancient times showed the power and wealth of the Greeks. This is a plateau that sits above Athens that is 490 feet above sea level. It lays in ruin today but is a reminder of our own architechtual history.