Updated:05/29/2022 18:37h
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The painting of the ‘Gioconda’one of the main claims of the Louvre Museum, has been the subject of an attack this Sunday by a visitor, who has thrown a cake against the glass that protects the work of Leonardo da Vinci. The attacker, whose identity and intentions have not been revealed, was reduced by the museum’s security and expelled from the place.
In some images spread on social networks, a handful of astonished visitors can be seen while Louvre workers clean the remains of the cake on the screen that protects the popular ‘Mona Lisa’. Despite the attack, the work has not suffered any damage.
According to a witness to the events, who shared a video on her Twitter profile, the attacker was a man in a wheelchair wearing a wig.
Apparently, he got up from his chair and then he threw the cake.
THAT THEY HAVE PULLED THE MONA LISA pic.twitter.com/LAtoOIVTbD
– Aluferathul ✧ (@Aluferathul) May 29, 2022
This is not the first time someone has tried to damage Da Vinci’s canvas. In August 2009, a tourist threw a cup of tea. Three decades earlier, in 1974, while it was being exhibited in Tokyo, a woman in a wheelchair protested the lack of ramps by spraying red lacquer on the protective elements of the painting.
In the middle of the last century, specifically in 1956, two other attacks were recorded. The first of them at the hand of a man suffering from the Stendhal’s syndrome: threw sulfuric acid against the canvas and damaged the bottom edge. A short time later, a Bolivian student threw a stone at the painting.
Quite heavy to have witnessed this https://t.co/hnYW0scXZ8pic.twitter.com/DrfuqSo084
— Lis (@Lis_grimaldi) May 29, 2022
It must be remembered that at the beginning of the 20th century, in 1911, the painting was stolen and it took two years to recover it. “It is not explained that the thief was able to leave with a canvas 40 centimeters wide and 70 long without attracting the attention of the security guards,” ABC wrote. After the ‘robbery of the century’, visits to the Louvre multiplied. The ‘Gioconda’ then became a popular icon.
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