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 Louvre Museum in Paris, home to the Mona Lisa, unexpectedly shut down due to a staff strike, leaving tourists stranded.

PARIS — 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.

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.” ...

The Mona Lisa has been targeted by protesters in the past. In 2022, a man who dressed as an elderly woman smeared the painting with a cakelike cream. More than a decade earlier in 2009, a woman ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Mona Lisa's roommates at the Louvre may be glad she's moving out Now that Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in the ...

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 ...

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.