The Winged Victory

First on our list was the Winged Victory, a famous statue with no head. Don't know the history of this piece of art, but it was neat. What wasn't so neat was that everyone basically wanted to see the same things in this huge gallery - the Winged Victory, the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo. So it would seem to make sense to place those pieces in areas that could accommodate large groups of people. What they did instead was place this statue, for example, at the top of a steep stairway on a small landing. It forced everyone to walk by it in order to get someplace else and created a major bottleneck on the steps and landing.