An "unhinged" Russian woman threw a teacup at the world's most famous painting, Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa," but it emerges unscathed due to its bullet-proof glass cover, the Louvre museum said on Tuesday.
"The young women take a cup out of her bag and throw it over the heads of other people who were looking at the painting. The cup cracked on the bullet-proof glass which was a little bit scratched," a spokesman said.
The Louvre, the biggest art museum in the world, has thousands of paintings, but most of the millions of guests a year make a bee-line for the Mona Lisa, known in France as La Joconde.
The 500-year-old painting was stolen in 1911 from the Louvre but was returned two years later after an Italian was under arrest for its theft.
The 500-year-old painting was stolen in 1911 from the Louvre but was returned two years later after an Italian was under arrest for its theft.
It was doused with acid by a vandal in 1956 and later the same year a Bolivian injured it again by throwing a rock at it.
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