Mona Lisa stays smiling after teacup attack by Russian

AN “unhinged” Russian woman, allegedly frustrated at failing to obtain French nationality, threw a teacup at the world’s most famous painting, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, but it emerged unscathed due to its bullet-proof glass cover, the Louvre museum said yesterday.

“The young woman took a cup out of her bag and threw it over the heads of other people who were looking at the painting. The cup smashed on the bullet-proof glass which was slightly scratched,” a spokesman said.

“It looks like it was done by someone who was unhinged and wanted to draw attention to herself,” he said.