Footage captured at the Louvre in Paris shows a person apparently wearing lipstick and a wig asking people to "think of the planet" after attacking the world’s most famous portrait.
Highlights
- A person dressed as an old woman in a wheelchair staged an attack on the Mona Lisa in Paris.
- Footage shows the person apparently wearing lipstick and a wig asking people to “think of the planet” The painting, considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, was not damaged.
- The Louvre said the person simulated a disability to use a wheelchair and approach the work installed in a secure display case.
- The painting was stolen in 1911 by a museum employee, an event which increased the painting’s international fame.
- A vandal hurled acid at the painting in 1950, damaging the artwork and causing it to be kept behind glass ever since.
- In 2009, a Russian woman angry at not being able to get French citizenship