In this grab taken from video, a view of the scene after activists hurled soup at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa, at the Louvre Museum, in Paris, Sunday. Jan. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Clement Lanot) ...

The Mona Lisa has been vandalized five times with the first known-time dating all the way back to 1956 and the most recent being in 2022. In 1956, the Mona Lisa was attacked not once, but twice.

The Mona Lisa incident comes as French farmers are protesting for better protection against imports and increased pay for what they produce, according to the Associated Press. Advertisement Skip ...

The Mona Lisa would be accessible separately from the rest of the museum, he added, with its own ticket. Image The Louvre Pyramid, the glass-and-steel entrance to the museum that was designed by ...

Last spring, the world’s most-visited art museum, the Louvre in Paris, proposed moving its most popular artwork—Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa—to its own subterranean room. Now, that idea ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was first recorded within the collection of France’s King Francis I in 1550, by the artist and chronicler Giorgio Vasari—the claims for its return to Italy ...

Two climate activists hurled soup Sunday at the glass protecting the "Mona Lisa" at the Louvre Museum in Paris and shouted slogans advocating for a sustainable food system. In a video posted on ...

The “Mona Lisa” was previously targeted in 2022 by an activist who smeared cake on the painting, shouting, “Artists tell you: Think of the Earth. That’s why I did this.” ...

COLUMN. The museum's management wants to isolate the 'Mona Lisa' in a room with its own entrance, which could help rid the painting of overtourism, says Michel Guerrin, editor-in-chief of Le Monde.

The Mona Lisa painting by Leonarodo di Vinci has been known to be a portiot of the real life Lisa Gherardini. ... The painting was put behind glass for extra protection in 1956 after this incident.