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Sweet spoiler: Man throws whipped cream cake on Mona Lisa | Israel today

2022-05-30T08:19:53.664Z


The famous work of art became the target of a strange act of vandalism at the Louvre Museum in Paris • The iconic painting was not damaged thanks to a special glass that protects it from corruption


Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, and perhaps the world's most recognizable work of art, the Mona Lisa, was upgraded last Sunday in the form of a cake whipped cream.

The white addition to the iconic masterpiece was the brainchild of a local visitor to the Louvre Museum in Paris.

The offender arrived at the scene disguised as a woman and sitting in a wheelchair.

As he approached the picture, however, the man suddenly got up, started shouting, and threw the cake on the Mona Lisa.

For those who cared, hello to the famous historical work because it is protected by heavy glass that protects it from just such cases, which have happened in the past.

Museum security guards rushed to evacuate the offender while the rest of those present in the room rushed to film the scene and the image that underwent a slight upgrade to white.

As mentioned for the Mona Lisa, created by Leonardo da Vinci, a long history of protest events of revolutionaries and just your people who took advantage of the publication of the painting to convey a message of their own.

For example, in the 1950s, a man threw sulfuric acid on the painting, an act that caused damage to the edges of the work.

A Bolivian student also hit the picture with a stone.

In another case while the picture was on display in Tokyo a woman arrived in a wheelchair and, thankfully, spray-painted her chair with red books in protest of the lack of an accessible ramp for the disabled.

Either way today the famous painting, which is one of the iconic symbols of the human race, is well protected by tempered glass that prevents any damage to it.

Either way we are left to wonder what Lady Lisa would have said about the whipped cream and whether she would have passed her kitchen test in 16th century Italy.

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Source: israelhayom

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