Creative History

  The founding charter of the Wenlock Olympian Games, written by a group of concerned citizens who wished, above all else, to improve their small town’s physical and moral health stated that the Games were established for, “the promotion of the moral, physical and the intellectual improvement of the inhabitants of the town and neighborhood of Wenlock and especially of the working classes, by the encouragement of outdoor recreation and by the award of prizes annually at public meetings for skill in Athletic exercise and proficiency in intellectual and industrial attainments.”   The founding charter of the Wenlock Olympian games was authored by members of a group that called themselves the Wenlock Agricultural Reading Society (WARS) in February of 1850 and its main aim was to establish something, in a true Victorian Era caste-system way of thinking that they called “The Olympian Class”.  Though, the idea of creating a so-called Olympian Class of citizens to us today ...

  Vincenzo Peruggia is a 30 year old aspiring artist who has recently emigrated from Florence, Italy, to Paris and found work as a handyman at the Louvre, the world’s most renowned art museum. Peruggia has a checkered past.  During his short time living as a member of Paris’ Bohemian art community in various boarding houses he has been arrested twice, once for assaulting a prostitute and one other time for having drawn a gun in the midst of a drunken brawl. But early on the morning of August 21, 1911 aspiring artist and petty criminal Vincenzo Peruggia will steal the Mona Lisa and pull off the greatest art heist in world history. Vincenzo Peruggia Mugshot & Fingerprints 1913 At 7 a.m. on Monday morning August 21, he enters the Louvre via an employee entrance with a crowd of other workers.  Peruggia is dressed in a large white smock that is part of the customary uniform worn by all maintenance workers of the museum at the time. Peruggia lingers around the Salon ...