RED CROSS OVER LOUVRE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15704, 3 September 1914, Page 8

RED CROSS OVER LOUVRE.

WORKS OF ART PROTECTED. London, September 1. The Paris press reports that many airmen are going to the front to revenge themselves on the Germans for tho dropping of bombs on Paris. The authorities of the Louvre are protecting the chief works of art

from the danger of aerial bombs. The Venus de Milo has been enclosed in a steel room, and the Winged Victory is protected by iron plates. Other masterpieces are protected with sacks of earth. The upper storeys of the Louvre have been converted into a hospital, and are flying the Red Cross flag. "The Winged Victory of Samothrace" and the Venus of Milo are perhaps the two greatest examples of early Greek sculp tare preserved in the Louvre. The Winged Victory was discovered in the Island of Samothrace, in the JEgean Sea, in 1863. The work was set up by Demetrius Poliorcetes after a naval victory won at Salamis, in Cyprus, in 306 8.C., over the fleet of Ptolemy, King of Egypt. It represents Victory as a female figure, standing with wings outspread. The head of the figure is nnssirfg.