Vito Scotti the 1959 episode "Deadly Tintype" of the NBC Western series, "The Californians". In 1963, Scotti was cast as the Italian farmer Vincenzo Perugia in the episode "The Tenth Mona Lisa" of the CBS anthology series, "General Electric True", hosted by Jack Webb. In the episode, Perugia in 1911 steals the "Mona Lisa" from the Louvre museum in Paris but is apprehended by a French detective when he attempts to unload the painting on an art dealer. He also appeared in television series, such as "How to Marry a Millionaire" (as Jules in the 1958 episode "Loco and the Gambler"), in
Paris in the 17th century in 1697. The architectural style of the French Renaissance continued to dominate in Paris through the Regency of Marie de' Medici. The end of the wars of religion allowed the continuation of several building projects, such as the expansion of the Louvre, begun in the 16th century but abandoned because of the war. With the arrival in power of Louis XIII and the ministers Richelieu and Mazarin, a new architectural style, the baroque, imported from Italy, began to appear in Paris. Its purpose, like Baroque music and painting, was to awe Parisians with its majesty and ornament, in opposition to