Footage captured by onlookers at the Louvre caught the most famous portrait in the world covered in cake.
A 36-year-old man has been arrested and placed in psychiatric care after he smeared the Mona Lisa with cake in a purported protest against artists not focussing enough on "the planet".Protective glass meant the Mona Lisa was not damagedThe most famous portrait in the world had her cake and ate it too after a man disguised as an elderly woman attempted to smash the painting's protective glass before smearing the surface with dessert on Sunday.
A Twitter user identified as Lukeee posted a video showing a museum employee wiping what he says is cake off the glass and another showing a man dressed in white being escorted away by security guards. "There are people who are destroying the Earth…," says the man in another video, speaking French and indicating the incident had an environmental motive.The treasured work by Leonardo da Vinci, which has been the target of vandalism attempts in the past, was unharmed thanks to its bulletproof glass case.
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