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An “old woman” jumped out of her pushchair to smear cake on the Mona Lisa painting at the Lourve Museum in Paris, leaving art lovers stunned. On Sunday, visuals of the famous painting soiled with cake cream went viral on social media. According to Marca, a man dressed as an elderly woman in a wheelchair hopped up and threw cake at the iconic painting, shocking bystanders. He allegedly tried to break through the bulletproof glass that guards Leonardo da Vinci’s work in the Louvre Museum.
The perpetrator, according to eyewitnesses, was a man in a wheelchair wearing a wig. He abruptly rose and contacted the painting.
He initially attempted to destroy the display cabinet. He decided to throw the cake onto the canvas and expanded it over the glass panel when that didn’t work. Before being thrown to the ground by security, he also sprinkled roses.
The cake is smeared across the glass behind which the Mona Lisa sits in the video. It also shows the perpetrator speaking to the visitors in French as he is being led away by security. According to Pledge Times, citing a Spanish media outlet, the man shouted, among other things, “some folks are attempting to destroy the earth, think of the earth!”
According to witnesses, the attacker disguised himself as an elderly lady and rode through the museum in a wheelchair before having committed the attack. It is still unknown what the man’s motivation was or how he smuggled the cake into the museum.
Meanwhile, it should be noted that this is not the first time the Mona Lisa has been vandalised. According to Ladbible, a vandal doused the painting with acid in 1956, severely damaging the lower part of the masterpiece. Because of this incident, the Mona Lisa is now protected by bulletproof glass.
