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Viral Video: Man Disguised As Woman Smears Cake On Mona Lisa Painting, Visitors Shocked

A man disguised as a woman smeared cake on the Mona Lisa painting and then spreads rose petals on the floor of the Louvre Museum in Paris

New Delhi: A man disguised himself as a woman in a wheelchair, and smeared cake on the famous painting Mona Lisa displayed at the Louvre Museum in Paris. While Leonardo da Vinci’s painting is protected by a glass casing it didn’t stop the man from pasting cake cream on it. 

According to Marca, a Spanish news outlet, eyewitnesses said that the person in the wheelchair who was a man wearing a wig, suddenly stood up, crossed the barricade, and tried to destroy the bulletproof glass casing but it didn’t work so he threw cake cream on it before sprinkling rose petals everywhere just before being tackled by the security personnel.

It was all caught on camera and the visitors continued to take photos and videos of the whole sequence. 

However, the Italian Renaissance painting remained unharmed because of the protective casing which is where the man smeared the cake. Nobody knows how the person smuggled the cake into the museum.

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While being escorted by the security, the man shouted,  “some people are trying to destroy the earth, think of the earth!” Pledge Times, a Spanish media outlet reported. While the incident occurred in one of the rooms that receive the most traffic, the matter didn’t escalate and the man was escorted out of the museum while the personnel cleaned the glass casing. 

There have been several attempts to either steal or deface the painting. In 1911 the painting was stolen and was missing for three years. A man threw Sulfuric acid in the 1950s which did leave some damage to the painting, due to which the painting is kept in a glass casing. 

 

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