Eco-activist attacks world’s most famous painting

The famous painting ‘Mona Lisa’ was attacked in Louvre, Paris. The incident occured on the 30th of May, 2022

The unassuming individual had earlier attempted to smash the bullet proof glass of the painting. According to the eye witness of the incident, the man dressed as an old lady smeared cake on the glass.

Maybe this is just nuts to me💀but an man dressed as an old lady jumps out of a wheel chair and attempted to smash the bullet proof glass of the Mona Lisa. Then proceeds to smear cake on the glass, and throws roses everywhere all before being tackled by security. 😂??? pic.twitter.com/OFXdx9eWcM

— Lukeee🧃 (@lukeXC2002) May 29, 2022

“Think of the Earth, people are destroying the Earth,” the man said in French in another video that showed him being led away by security from the Paris gallery. “Think about it. Artists tell you: think of the Earth. That’s why I did this.”

The 16th-century Renaissance masterpiece has been targeted before. The painting was stolen in 1911 by a museum employee, an event that increased its international fame.

In December, 1956, a Bolivian man threw a rock at the painting in December 1956, damaging her left elbow. In 2005, it was placed in a reinforced case that also controls temperature and humidity.

2009 saw a Russian woman who threw an empty teacup at the painting, angry at not being able to get French citizenship,  slightly scratching the case.

Located at the Louvre museum -the largest museum in the world, housing hundreds of thousands of works that attracted some 10 million visitors a year before the COVID-19 pandemic- the Da Vinci masterpiece has been described as “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world”.

Today. Ng /Stephanie .S.