where was the mona lisa kept during ww2
Château de Chambord the Loc-Dieu Abbey the Ingres Museum Château d'Amboise
title: Mona Lisa text: Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) it was moved from the Louvre to the Brest Arsenal. During World War II, "Mona Lisa" was again removed from the Louvre and taken safely, first to Château d'Amboise, then to the Loc-Dieu Abbey and Château de Chambord, then finally to the Ingres Museum in Montauban. In December 2015, it was reported that French scientist Pascal Cotte had found a hidden portrait underneath the surface of the painting using reflective light technology. The portrait is an underlying image of a model looking off to the side. Having been given access to the painting by Louvre in 2004, title: Mona Lisa text: del Giocondo circa 1503, had flanking columns, have been left unfinished and have been in Salaì’s possession in 1525. The second, commissioned by Giuliano de' Medici circa 1513, without the flanking columns, would have been sold by Salaì to Francis I in 1518 and be the one in the Louvre today. The painting was kept at the Palace of Fontainebleau, where it remained until Louis XIV moved the painting to the Palace of Versailles. After the French Revolution, it was moved to the Louvre, but spent a brief period in the bedroom of Napoleon in the Tuileries Palace. During the title: Musée Ingres text: museum is located in a building that once served as the residence of the bishops of Montauban. The structure belongs chiefly to the 17th century, but some portions are much older, notably an underground chamber known as the Hall of the Black Prince (Salle du Prince Noir). During World War II, the Musée Ingres served as one of the temporary places of storage for the Mona Lisa, evacuated from the Louvre at the beginning of the war. A renovation carried out between 1951–1958 made Musée Ingres a modern institution according to the designs of the time, equipped with additional inventories. title: Evacuation of the Louvre museum art collection during World War II text: attendants which poles were responsible to deal with electric or phone cables. The last art piece to leave the museum was the Winged Victory of Samothrace, which was moved on September 3, 1939, the day the French ultimatum to Germany expired. Throughout the war, the arts pieces were clandestinely moved from chateau to chateau to avoid being taken back by the Nazis. For example, the "Mona Lisa" was moved from Chambord to several castles and abbeys, to finish at the end of the war at the Musée Ingres in Montauban. On 16 August 1940, count Franz von Wolff-Metternich, who was title: Château de Chambord text: to the French state since 1930. In 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the art collections of the Louvre and Compiègne museums (including the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo) were stored at the Château de Chambord. An American B-24 Liberator bomber crashed onto the château lawn on 22 June 1944. The image of the château has been widely used to sell commodities from chocolate to alcohol and from porcelain to alarm clocks; combined with the various written accounts of visitors, this made Chambord one of the best known examples of France's architectural history. Today, Chambord is