The Mona Lisa, leonardo Da Vinci’s famous painting, was smeared with white cream after a cake was thrown at her by tourists at the Louvre museum in Paris on May 30, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported.  Fortunately, glass panels protected the painting from damage.

Witnesses said a man in a wig and wheelchair, posing as an elderly woman, approached the painting looking for a chance to damage it.  After smeating cake on the painting, the man scattered rose petals around it and made a speech about protecting the earth.  Guards then evicted him from the gallery and cleaned the painting again.  The man’s identity and intentions were not immediately clear.

You’ve probably seen it in the movies, but have you ever seen a famous painting thrown at a cake?

A piece of cake hit leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa at the Louvre museum in Paris Wednesday, Spanish newspaper Marca reported.  Fortunately, the cake fell on the glass cover of the Mona Lisa and the painting was not affected.

The report cited witnesses as saying the man in a wheelchair was wearing a wig and disguised as an old woman.  To the surprise of other visitors, the man suddenly stood up and approached the Mona Lisa, throwing a large piece of cake at the famous painting.  The video shows a large piece of white cream remaining in the lower half of the painting, almost covering the Mona Lisa’s hands and arms.

Louvre security guards reportedly rushed to remove the man from the building after the incident, while people raised their mobile phones to film the incident.  The Mona Lisa, painted by Da Vinci around 1503, is unaffected because it is protected by safety glass.

Marca said it was not the first time the Mona Lisa had been attacked.  In the 1950s, the Mona Lisa was damaged by acid thrown at it by a male tourist.  Since then, the Mona Lisa has been kept under safety glass.  In August 2009, a Russian woman hit the painting with a teacup, shattering it into pieces, but the painting was protected by safety glass.  In August 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen by an Italian Louvre painter and taken back to Italy, where it was not found until two years later and returned to Paris.