The Mona Lisa Is Really Having One of Those Weeks
Between a cake-smearing vandal and a visit from the Da Vinki twins, the famous 500-year-old just can't catch a break.
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The Mona Lisa has seen some shit in her approximately 519 years. Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece has been stolen, vandalized, and parodied more often than anyone could count. She’s graced the covers of bestsellers, hung in Napoleon’s bedroom, and received 30,000 visitors a day at Paris’s Louvre Museum. But even by these lofty historical standards, she’s had a pretty chaotic week—one that found her getting attacked with cake and visited by a couple of very silly social media celebs.
According to the New York Times, a Louvre visitor disguised himself as a wheelchair user in order to get close to the painting over the weekend. He then went on to bang on the glass encasing the work and smear it with a pastry or cake.
As security escorted him out of the museum, the vandal suggested in French that the attack was a response to the climate crisis: “There are people who are destroying the Earth… All artists, think about the Earth. That’s why I did this. Think of the planet.”