A cake against the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece preserved in the Louvre Museum in Paris. It happened yesterday, around noon: a man threw a cream cake against the glass that protects the work. And he would do it for «support for the environmental cause».
Several videos of witnesses who witnessed the demonstration gesture, incredulous, have been published on social networks. On Twitter, a user wrote: “I just saw a man throw a piece of cake on the Mona Lisa.” A few hours later, he posted a video, showing the caretaker cleaning the protective glass of the work. “It doesn’t seem real to me. A man dressed as an elderly lady got out of a wheelchair and tried to break the protective glass of the Mona Lisa. He then threw the cake on the glass and sprinkled rose petals around him before being taken away by the security men. ‘
Another video shows the person responsible for the accident being escorted to the exit by the museum guards. Dressed in a wig and a cap, he pushes the same wheelchair from the previous video and speaks French. “Think of the Earth”, shout. “There are people who are destroying the Earth. Think about it. Artists tell you: “Think of the Earth”. All artists think of the Earth. That’s why I did it. Think of the planet! ».
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The glass managed to protect the work well, which it has not suffered any damage, but it is not the first time that the Mona Lisa is the victim of an act of vandalism. In August 2009, a tourist threw a cup of tea at the protective glass. In 1974, in Tokyo, someone tried to ruin the work with a red spray. Even earlier, in 1957, a Bolivian had thrown a stone at the painting, slightly damaging it. At the time, as Le Monde recounted, he explained: “I had a stone in my pocket, and all of a sudden I got the idea of throwing it.”
Source: Vanity Fair
