Mona Lisa survives the cake attack of an environmental activist who disguised grandma as a wheelchair -bound grandma

The Mona Lisa got under a “cake” attack on Sunday after a male visitor who had covered himself as a grandma tied to the wheelchair had thrown a piece of “cake” onto the most famous painting in the world.

Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece remained undamaged in the incident in the Louvre, as it is protected behind a thick glass showcase.

The nameless man said that he had carried out the stunt to raise awareness of the state of “the planet”.

The incident that occurred on Sunday afternoon was catched up with the camera by several visitors among the hundreds who took part in a look at "La Joconde", as the French call the French.

The make -up man with a black wig was pushed forward in a wheelchair. Then he jumped up and hurled the piece of cake onto the painting that was smeared with white glaze.

He threw red rose petals before he was arrested and led by security personnel from the museum. They then could be seen how they wiped the cream with a cloth.

Increased visitors went to social media and said: "I just saw how a man threw a piece of cake on the Mona Lisa."

Another Twitter user said: “Maybe that's just crazy for me, but a man who is disguised as an old lady jumps out of a wheelchair and tried to smash the bulletproof glass of the Mona Lisa.

"Then he continues to lubricate cakes on the glass and throws roses everywhere before it is attacked by the security forces ???"

before it was led, the Frenchman was filmed and said: "Think of the earth. There are people who destroy the earth. That's why I did it. Think of the planet."

The Louvre rejected a statement, but according to Le Parisien, filed a lawsuit for “public deface”.

This is by no means the first time that the Mona Lisa is attacked. It has been behind glass since a Bolivian man threw a stone on the painting in December 1956 and damaged her left elbow.

2009 a Russian threw an empty tea cup onto the painting, which slightly scratched the housing.

The most visited painting in the world, which hangs in the Salle of the Louvre's État, received a new glass coverage in 2019 that "increases transparency thanks to the latest anti -reflection technology and at the same time improves security," says the museum.

As part of a ten -month spring cleaning, the walls behind the frame of eggshell yellow after midnight blue.

In the meantime, a new queue system was introduced to create shorter waiting times and an intimate experience with painting.

The Mona Lisa attracts 10.2 million people every year, with about 80 percent of the museum visitors only come to see the work.