Cake on da Vinci’s Mona Lisa in the Louvre
The images are going around the world
A man threw a cake at Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. It happened at the Louvre museum in Paris. Police and guards immediately blocked the perpetrator of the act. The glass case that protects the most famous painting in the world has avoided damage.
The images went viral.
Everything happened under the eyes of the visitors. They crowded the halls of the prestigious French gallery. So the social networks filled up with photos and videos of the incident in an instant.
According to the reconstructions, the vandal approached the masterpiece in a wheelchair. To disguise himself, he also wore a wig and women’s clothes. Somewhere, under his clothes, he hid a cream cake.
When he arrived near the opera, he jumped up and threw the cake at the Mona Lisa.
Before the intervention of the agents, the man scattered some roses on the ground. He looks like a young man with an unknown identity, who during his actions shouted: “We must save the planet”.
A security officer then cleaned everything up.
The painting of Leonardo Da Vinci in his life has suffered several attacks. The Corriere della Sera recalls them. In 2009, a visitor threw a teacup at it, which broke into a thousand pieces on the glass case. In the 1950s, two attackers damaged Mona Lisa.
On several occasions, they tried to hit the painting with acid and a stone.
The most sensational episode dates back to 1911. An Italian managed to steal the work by hiding it under his jacket and taking it to Italy. Then he tried to sell the Mona Lisa to an antiquarian in Florence.
Hence the arrest.
