sentences:  As a result of this action Honoré II is today regarded as the hero of Monaco.Highly educated and a patron of the arts, Honoré II, secure on his throne, began collecting works by Titian, Dürer, Raphael, Rubens and Michelangelo which formed the basis of the art collection that furnished the palace slowly evolving from the Monaco fortress.Over the following 30-year period he transformed it into a palace suitable for a prince ("Illustration 9").