Put the Mona Lisa in its own building — for its sake and the visitors’

Victoria Coates is a vice president at the Heritage Foundation.

The brazen theft of crown jewels from France’s Louvre museum reveals a significant danger to the extraordinary works of art it contains. Fortunately, the alleged thieves are being apprehended, but that doesn’t change the fact that they were able to penetrate the museum’s defenses and make away with their loot, which has not been recovered. This begs the question: What is the risk to the Louvre’s other treasures, specifically Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa?