Mona Lisa gets caked by man disguised as old woman at the Louvre
A man in a wheelchair and a wig stood up suddenly to stamp the cake despite the fact
that the cake actually collided with the glass that protects Leonardo da Vinci's work in
the Louvre Museum in Paris.
According to witness testimony, the perpetrator was a man in a wheelchair who wore a
wig. To the surprise of the other guests, he suddenly stood up and approached La
Gioconda, throwing the cake at her.
Those in charge of the museum's security rushed to eject the man from the room, while
the rest of those present continued to photograph the situation nonstop.
The painting, which was created between 1503 and 1519 by Leonardo da Vinci, was
unaffected because it was not exposed and protected by safety glass, which was where
the sweet's remains were impregnated.
And, despite the astonishment of those who were in the museum's most inaccessible
room at the time, which is always packed with tourists, the incident did not escalate. As
seen in some of the videos shared on social media, Louvre security workers rushed to
remove the attacker from the building and clean the glass.
Not the first attack on the painting
Attempts to deface, steal, or use the 77 by 53 centimeter canvas to raise awareness for
various causes have been made throughout history.
A man threw sulfuric acid at it in the 1950s, which had an effect on the painting, and a
Bolivian student hit it with a stone. A woman in a wheelchair sprayed red paint on her
wheelchair while she was at an exhibition in Tokyo in 1974, expressing her
dissatisfaction with the lack of access ramps, though she never reached him.
A Russian tourist threw a cup of tea at it in the summer of 2009. The work was stolen
over a century ago, in 1911, and went missing for nearly three years.