Two demonstrators demanding the right to “healthy and sustainable food” on Sunday threw soup against the bulletproof glass enclosing Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” in Paris, as witnessed by an AFP journalist.
An AFP video journalist said that two ladies hurled red and orange soup at the glass shielding the happy woman, causing gasps from the visitors to the Louvre museum in the French city.
ALERTE – Des militantes pour le climat jettent de la soupe sur le tableau de La Joconde au musée du Louvre. @CLPRESSFR pic.twitter.com/Aa7gavRRc4
— CLPRESS / Agence de presse (@CLPRESSFR) January 28, 2024
“What holds greater significance? Speaking one after the other, they stood in front of the artwork and posed the question, “Art or the right to healthy and sustainable food?”
The move coincides with days of protests by French farmers calling for increased wages, levies, and regulations.
Despite the measures proposed by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Friday, roadblocks have persisted in several regions of the nation.
The stunt on Sunday is part of a string of similar actions taken by climate activists against well-known artworks to call for greater action to phase out fossil fuels and safeguard the environment.
It wasn’t the “Mona Lisa”‘s first attack.
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In May 2022, a 36-year-old man threw a custard pie at her, claiming that artists were not paying enough attention to “the planet,” but the thick glass shell protected her from injury.