The Mona Lisa has received increased attention this weekend – for all the wrong reasons. The masterpiece has been covered in soup by climate activists at the Louvre in Paris, France this morning ...
In 1910, Vincenzo begins working at glassworks company Gobier, which was busy fitting glass covers on 16,000 paintings at the Louvre to protect them from vandalism. A worker hanging the Mona Lisa ...
Up to 10 million people a year visit the "Mona Lisa" at the Louvre, crowding into the Paris gallery where "she gazes out from behind 3in of bulletproof glass", said The Times. Many visitors queue ...