The Sainte-Victoire mountain was made internationally famous by the Aix painter Paul Cézanne who, fascinated by the massif, painted it tirelessly (44 oils and 43 watercolors) between 1868 and 1906 and whose canvases are now exhibited in the world most important museums. Cézanne has always represented Sainte-Victoire from the west, except for the canvases from Gardanne in the south. Pablo Picasso, the owner of the castle of Vauvenargues (north slope) in the courtyard of which he is buried, also contributed to the mountain's aura. In addition, the discovery of deposits of dinosaur eggs at the foot of Sainte-Victoire from the 1930s onwards placed the site among the hotspots of world paleontology. Highly popular, the massif is walked annually by more than 1.5 million visitors and hikers, whose influx threatens the stability of some spaces.