The Mona Lisa was attacked but unharmed when a visitor to the Louvre in Paris tried to smash the glass protecting the world’s most famous painting before smearing cake across its surface in an apparent environment-related publicity stunt, Al Jazeera reports.
Videos posted on social media show a young man in a wig and lipstick who arrived in a wheelchair. The man, whose identity was unknown, was also seen throwing roses in the museum gallery.
The perpetrator, disguised as an old lady, then jumped out of the wheelchair before assaulting the bulletproof glass.
The cake attack left a conspicuous white creamy smear but the famous work by Leonardo da Vinci was not damaged.
“Maybe this is just nuts to me,” posted the taker of a video of the incident’s aftermath, which shows a Louvre staffer cleaning the glass. “[He] then proceeds to smear cake on the glass, and throws roses everywhere before being tackled by security.”
Officials at the Louvre Museum in Paris declined to comment on Monday on the bizarre incident the day previous.
