Théodore Steeg responsible for Posts and Telegraphs. In 1907 he was appointed the rapporteur on the Public Education budget. Théodore Steeg was appointed Minister of Public Instruction and Beaux-Arts in Ernest Monis's cabinet on 2 March 1911. The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre on 21 August 1911, and Steeg was forced to start an administrative inquiry into how such an important painting could have been stolen from such a major museum. Steeg was a supporter of the Nouvelle Sorbonne movement with its insistence on basic republican principles. He rejected a petition to revise the Sorbonne reforms of 1902, to which
St. George (Raphael, Louvre) the Louvre were painted for the Duke of Urbino. The Uffizi Gallery has a pen-and-wash cartoon for the "Saint George" (seen here below). St. George (Raphael, Louvre) St. George or St. George and the Dragon is a small painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It is housed in the Louvre in Paris. A later version of the same subject is the "St. George" in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. This painting and the equally small "Saint Michael", also in the Louvre, are a pair. In the Mazarin Collection they were joined together, forming a diptych, and