China News Service, January 29. According to Agence France-Presse, on the 28th local time, two protesters poured pumpkin soup on Leonardo da Vinci's painting "Mona Lisa" in the Louvre Museum in Paris, demanding "health and safety". Sustainable Food” rights, but fortunately the painting was protected by glass and was not damaged.
On the 28th local time, pumpkin soup was poured on the "Mona Lisa" painting in the Louvre Museum in France.
The Louvre said the two men brought pumpkin soup into the museum hidden in a thermos. Small amounts of food are allowed in the museum, but eating in the exhibition halls is not allowed. The Mona Lisa painting "did not suffer any damage" and the gallery displaying the work reopened to the public after being closed for about an hour.
The Paris prosecutor's office said both activists had been detained.
According to reports, a group called Food Fight Back claimed responsibility. They said the soup-throwing marked "the beginning of a movement of civil resistance with clear demands for social security for sustainable food".
The French Minister of Culture criticized the "soup throwing" incident, "The Mona Lisa, as our heritage, belongs to future generations. There is no reasonable reason to attack it."
According to Agence France-Presse, the painting "Mona Lisa" has also been "attacked" before. The painting has been protected behind glass since 1956, when a man threw a rock at the painting, damaging the left elbow of the figure in the painting. In 2009, a woman threw an empty teacup at the painting, causing minor scratches. In May 2022, a man threw a custard pie at the painting, saying artists didn't pay enough attention to "the planet."