Post by asadul4986 on Feb 20, 2024 2:06:57 GMT -7
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa has been in the news for decades for different reasons. The last one, on Sunday, January 28, for being the target of activists who threw soup at the glass that protects it in the Louvre Museum in Paris. Before the incredulous gaze of the hundreds of visitors who were observing the iconic portrait at that moment, the protesters began to shout slogans to raise awareness about the right to “healthy and sustainable” food. Advertisements “Our agricultural system is sick ,” they claimed. Although the images of the attack went around the world, it is not the first time that something like this has happened to 16th century painting. Stones, pastels and paint have also been used against the Mona Lisa. And not only that: decades ago it even mysteriously disappeared from the museum. Here we tell you about some of those episodes that - unfortunately or not - have ended up solidifying his status as a popular icon in the world.
The robbery that launched her to fame On Monday, August 29, 1911, an Italian man named Vincenzo Peruggia managed to enter the Louvre, while it was closed to the general public. Peruggia was not the kind of resourceful criminal who appears in Hollywood movies. But he had worked at the museum in 1910 and had installed the glass door that protected the Costa Rica Mobile Number List masterpiece. He knew, then, how the painting was fixed in the frame. In an operation that did not require great effort or a grandiose plan - among other things, given the museum's dubious security system - Peruggia removed the painting and took it away. It wasn't until the next day that Louvre workers noticed the theft. The police began the investigation and the center was closed for a week amid the scandal.
Immediately, the news appeared in all the newspapers of the time. So much so that the incident was classified as the “robbery of the century.” “She appeared in movie newsreels, chocolate boxes, postcards… Suddenly she became a celebrity in the style of movie stars and singers,” wrote Darian Leader, author of “Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Doesn't Let Us See.” . Vincenzo Peruggia when he was arrested Theft became a matter of state and aroused great passions in France. Other scandals The poet Guillaume Apollinaire was put in jail for a week and the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, a friend of Apollinaire, was another of the suspects. They were both innocent. “It was the most famous property theft in peacetime,” Noah Charmey, author of “The Mona Lisa Thefts,” told the BBC. Historians have stated that it was this scandal that catapulted the fame that the Mona Lisa has today. From before, it was a prominent work of the Louvre along with many others, such as Venus de Milo, “Liberty Leading the People”, by Delacroix, and “The Raft of Medusa”, by Gericault. But after the theft, Da Vinci's painting was the recipient of a unique kind of fame.
The robbery that launched her to fame On Monday, August 29, 1911, an Italian man named Vincenzo Peruggia managed to enter the Louvre, while it was closed to the general public. Peruggia was not the kind of resourceful criminal who appears in Hollywood movies. But he had worked at the museum in 1910 and had installed the glass door that protected the Costa Rica Mobile Number List masterpiece. He knew, then, how the painting was fixed in the frame. In an operation that did not require great effort or a grandiose plan - among other things, given the museum's dubious security system - Peruggia removed the painting and took it away. It wasn't until the next day that Louvre workers noticed the theft. The police began the investigation and the center was closed for a week amid the scandal.
Immediately, the news appeared in all the newspapers of the time. So much so that the incident was classified as the “robbery of the century.” “She appeared in movie newsreels, chocolate boxes, postcards… Suddenly she became a celebrity in the style of movie stars and singers,” wrote Darian Leader, author of “Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Doesn't Let Us See.” . Vincenzo Peruggia when he was arrested Theft became a matter of state and aroused great passions in France. Other scandals The poet Guillaume Apollinaire was put in jail for a week and the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, a friend of Apollinaire, was another of the suspects. They were both innocent. “It was the most famous property theft in peacetime,” Noah Charmey, author of “The Mona Lisa Thefts,” told the BBC. Historians have stated that it was this scandal that catapulted the fame that the Mona Lisa has today. From before, it was a prominent work of the Louvre along with many others, such as Venus de Milo, “Liberty Leading the People”, by Delacroix, and “The Raft of Medusa”, by Gericault. But after the theft, Da Vinci's painting was the recipient of a unique kind of fame.