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It would be like seeing the Mona Lisa taken from the Louvre

It would be like seeing the Mona Lisa pulled down from the wall of the Louvre, wrapped in brown paper, and carted away. Or Botticelli�s Birth of Venus being sold from its position at the heart of the Uffizi in Florence.

It would be like seeing the Mona Lisa pulled down from the wall of the Louvre, wrapped in brown paper, and carted away. Or Botticelli's Birth of Venus being sold from its position at the heart of the Uffizi in Florence.