In addition to the admiration they evoke, some well-known works of art from time to time become a pole of attraction and. Attacks.
The Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci's most famous painting and the most recognizable work of art of all time, has been vandalized several times in the past.
Specifically, in 1956 two attempts were made to destroy the painting, one with acid and another with stone throwing.
In 1976, again, a woman with a disability, in response to the lack of infrastructure for the disabled in a Tokyo museum where the work was temporarily exhibited, spray-painted the painting.
In 2009 and the Louvre, which is also the permanent "home" of the painting "following your gaze", a woman from Russia, angry that she could not get French citizenship, threw a mug at Gioconda.
Now another attempt at vandalism took place at the Louvre on Sunday, May 29th. A man, therefore, dressed as an old woman in a wheelchair. When he arrived in front of the original work, which Da Vinci according to art historians painted between 1503-1506, he took off his wig and threw a cake at the Mona Lisa.
The project escaped any possible damage, as it is exposed behind protective glass.
The man seems to have wanted to send an ecological message with this move, as he allegedly shouted after throwing the cake: "Think of the Earth. We are destroying the Earth. Artists need to think about the Earth. That's why I did it. "
Some of the museum visitors who were in front of the event did not fail to immortalize it, with the images making the rounds of the internet.
With information from the International Business Times and TimeOut.
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