Climate activists threw orange-colored soup onto Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece displayed on the Louvre Museum in Paris, La Gioconda (sixteenth century), this Sunday.
The unique canvas is protected by a glass defend.
The 2 ladies, captured on movie throughout their practically two-minute-long motion, hurled the orange soup and swiftly handed beneath the obstacles surrounding the portray.
“What’s extra vital? Artwork or the precise to wholesome and sustainable meals? Our agricultural system is sick,” shouted one of many activists.
The ‘Gioconda,’ thought-about probably the most well-known canvas on the earth and also called the Mona Lisa, not too long ago confronted one other act of vandalism when a pie was thrown at it in Could 2022.
On that event, the act aimed to protest in opposition to governments’ inaction on local weather change.
Mona Lisa incident with activists from “Meals Response”
Within the footage, it may be seen that the 2 activists chant their slogans whereas a number of museum safety personnel try to dam picture seize with sheets.
Nonetheless, the video of the vandalistic act was picked up by information businesses and unfold like wildfire on social media.
The 2 ladies belong to the group “Riposte alimentaire” (Meals Response), which claimed duty for the act via their social media channels.
“One in three folks in France skips meals resulting from a scarcity of means, whereas 20 p.c of produced meals is wasted,” they denounced.
