Rossiyanka threw a cup of tea in the "Mona Lisa"
 

The guards were detained and handed over to the Louvre in Paris police Rossiyanka, shvyrnuvshuyu a painting of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" with a mug of hot tea. The woman, whose name was not released, remains in police custody. The case occurred on August 2, but we know about him was only 11 th, writes The Daily Mail.
The newspaper said the visitor bought tea in the museum cafe and brought a ceramic mug with them in the hall, where exposed "Mona Lisa". Since the painting is in a special container and closed bulletproof glass, thrown into her tank with a cup of tea without causing any harm to a masterpiece (mug, of course, was smashed). The woman was immediately detained by the museum's security service and forwarded to the police. Psychologists in the area attempted to determine whether the violators are not suffering from Stendhal's syndrome, a disorder in which people, when faced with works of art, faints or, conversely, begins to behave violently. The results of examination of rossiyanki not reported.
"Mona Lisa" - the only picture that has ever been stolen from the Louvre. This happened in 1911. The canvas was soon found and returned to the place. In 1956, a vandal threw acid at the picture, and in the same year, another man threw in the "Mona Lisa" stone, damaging the paint layer near the left elbow by women.
In the last case of vandalism at the Louvre was recorded in 1998, when Professor of Mathematics struck the statue of the philosopher Seneca, a hammer.
(Lenta.ru)

Such is the power of art ... it is otherworldly ...: cool:

There is even a movie from Dario Argento - "Stendhal Syndrome".

Russians are people too! (Not even so "They" only the vandals)

I was on this occasion to remember "If you see that the janitor is drinking tea, immediately cease - not tea, he drank it '(as kindly suggested Alena - I do not remember - from Strugackih) and still is my story about an interview with Nabokov on French television, which I already told you. It should be aired, that the citizen there saw in the cafeteria of the Louvre:)

And her with this ceramic mug allowed in the halls.
Finished her have her time in the cafeteria and went to look further.
I am in the small Dutch Guimet, too intermittently watched. Otdyshus, drink some coffee, and upstairs again to the exhibition. And so twice, too nahlobuchivaet.
But with coffee but I did not go to the exhibition. : D

I too was surprised when I read. Usually about foreign objects in the museum halls caution, and usually still at the entrance.
Maybe she hid this mug? That is ... to prepare decided to get into the story so to speak. : D

interesting, and she knew that the bulletproof glass.

She hit? be a sport that?
Actually there everything is so obstructed that it is not clear why this homely picture ....?

Paul, greetings!
 

Paul, me (in your absence) three times compared! (1 time as the opposite) ..
A pochumu You do tsifirki reds, and all the greens?