A Russian tourist threw a cup of tea with paint. The picture is protected by bulletproof glass. The incident occurred on August 2.
There are people for everything. French Louvre Museum today reported attack on a tourist to one of the most famous paintings in history: La Gioconda, Leonardo da Vinci.
Luckily, the box was not damaged after receiving a "bath" of a cup of tea against the painting, since it is protected by bulletproof glass.
The incident took place on day 2, when the museum recorded a large number of visitors as usual on the first Sunday of each month, when the entrance to the monuments of Paris is free.
For unknown reasons, a Russian tourist launched against painting a porcelain tea cup that had been introduced to place hiding in her purse, said a spokesman for the Louvre. "The security measures worked perfectly and the picture does not suffered any harm, "he said.
" La Gioconda ", the emblem of the largest museum in Paris, has a particular system of surveillance, including a glass shield that protects you even gun shots, the spokesman said .
Thanks to the surveillance cameras installed in the room "La Gioconda", the tourist was identified and arrested within minutes, despite the large number of people who was in the room.
Art Vandals
is not the first time that the Mona Lisa, visited last year by 8.5 million tourists, is attacked by vandals, but from the Louvre say for many years not seen an incident of this type with the enigmatic work that Leonardo da Vinci painted between 1503 and 1506.
The painting has been stolen several times, most recently in 1911, when an Italian took her to his country and was finally located in Florence two years later.
The Louvre recorded the last act of vandalism in 1998 when a statue of Seneca was damaged by a visitor.
More recently, the attack he suffered in 2008, Le pont d'Argenteuil painting by Claude Monet, torn by a young man slipped through the night at the Musée d'Orsay.
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