Mona Lisa makes headlines again, after a vandalism attempt
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, one of the most discussed portraits in the history of art, displayed at the Louvre Museum in Paris, is once again in the news, after a 36-year-old man hurled a handful of cake and tried to smash the glass protecting the world’s most famous painting on Sunday. According to the videos that went viral in the social media, the man in a wheelchair, wearing a wig and apparently posing as an elderly woman, attacked the most famous painting while hundreds of visitors were there, and it is suspected that the vandalism was an act of apparent environment-related publicity stunt. A video posted online shows the perpetrator speaking to visitors in French as he is escorted away by security. “Think of the Earth, people are destroying the Earth... Think about it. Artists tell you: think of the Earth. That’s why I did this.” Since the masterpiece is in a safe enclosure, it was not damaged and the attacker was taken into custody and sent to a police psychiatric unit. Mona ...