A person disguised as an outdated lady threw cake and smeared it throughout the Mona Lisa in a protest concerning the planet.
The customer to the Louvre in Paris tried to interrupt the glass defending the world’s most well-known portray earlier than smearing cream throughout its floor in what was considered a climate-related publicity stunt.
He then was seen leaping out of the wheelchair he was sitting in earlier than attacking the glass.
“The person tried to smash the glass defending the portray, and – when it didn’t break –smeared a cake throughout its floor,” mentioned an investigating supply.
“He didn't trigger any injury after leaping up from his wheelchair. It was fairly clear to everybody that he was a person pretending to be an outdated lady.”
A video confirmed a Louvre staffer cleansing the glass after the portray assault, stories Mirror On-line.
The poster continued: “(He) then proceeds to smear cake on the glass, and throws roses in all places earlier than being tackled by safety.”
Social media responses to the incident described it as “unreal”.
One Twitter responder wrote: “It appears unreal to me, however a person dressed as an outdated girl acquired up from a wheelchair and tried to interrupt the protecting glass of the Mona Lisa.
“He then smeared cake on the glass, and threw roses round him earlier than being subdued by safety.”
One other video on social media confirmed the identical staffer ending cleansing the pane whereas one other attendant removes a wheelchair from in entrance of the Da Vinci masterpiece.
“Consider the earth, individuals are destroying the earth”, the person, wearing a wig, mentioned in French in one other video posting.
“All artists consider the earth. That’s why I did it.”
It confirmed him being led away by safety from the Paris gallery with the wheelchair and prompt the incident had an environmentalist motive.
The protester added: “Consider the planet.”
A museum supply mentioned safety had “introduced the scenario beneath management” with no injury to the portray, which is taken into account priceless.
La Joconde – because the Mona Lisa is understood in France – was purchased by King Francis I of France simply earlier than Italian Leonardo da Vinci’s loss of life in 1519.
It turned well-known around the globe in 1911 after being stolen from the Louvre.
Three Italian workmen hid in a storeroom of the Louvre and took the small image (77cm x 53 cm) off a wall, earlier than simply smuggling it out. It was lastly returned in 1914.
The oil-on-wood picture of a Florentine lady is now visited by as much as 90 million individuals a yr.
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