Monday, May 30, 2022

White Idiot Defaces Mona Lisa!

Someone wants to be the lucky one to deface art history.

Leonardo Da Vinci's iconic masterpiece, the wondering eyes of Mona Lisa was defaced by a man who disguised himself as a woman. He entered the Paris Louvre Museum in a wheelchair. As he approached the artwork, he got up and threw a cake into the art and demanded Emmanuel Macron and French leaders to do something about climate change.

The suspect was arrested and the art was not permanently damaged. However, the artwork is estimated worth nearly $860 million. If damaged, it could cause a global outage and panic.

The art was protected by glass. Thankfully, the glass did not shatter and damaged the art.

The artwork was based on Italian noblewoman Lisa del Giocondo, a mother of five and the wife of a count, Francesco di Bartolomeo di Zanobi del Giocond. She was the daughter of Antonmaria di Noldo Gherardini and Lucrezia del Caccia.

The suspect didn't deface the painting. It was protected under strong glass.

Security guards were filmed escorting the wig-wearing activist away as he called out to the surprised visitors in the gallery: “Think of the Earth. There are people who are destroying the Earth. Think about it. Artists tell you: think of the Earth. That’s why I did this.”

Guards were then filmed cleaning the smeared cream from the glass. Officials at the Louvre weren’t immediately available for comment.

The Paris prosecutor’s office said Monday that the man, 36, was detained following Sunday’s incident and sent to a police psychiatric unit, and that it had opened an investigation into the damage of cultural artifacts.

Literally dressed in drag and wearing a wheelchair, a man tries his luck with trying to ruin a nearly $1 billion dollar work of art.

The 16th-century Renaissance masterpiece has been targeted before.

The painting was stolen in 1911 by a museum employee, an event which increased its international fame.

It was also damaged in an acid attack perpetrated by a vandal in the 1950s, and has since been kept behind glass.

In 2009, a Russian woman who was angry at not being able to get French citizenship threw a ceramic cup at it, smashing the cup but not harming the glass or the painting.

The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. 

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