Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter


10

Angry Russian Hurls Cup at Mona Lisa

Really, really miffed that she was denied citizenship

Share

(Newser) – A Russian woman distressed that France had refused to grant her nationality took out her frustration on a defenseless national treasure, Reuters reports. “The woman threw an empty cup at the Mona Lisa, but there was no damage as the cup smashed when it hit the screen protecting the painting,” a Louvre spokesman says. “She was visibly upset.” The woman is free after a psych exam, but faces a suit brought by the museum.

A man takes a photograph of Leonardo da Vinci's 16th century masterpiece the Mona Lisa.
A man takes a photograph of Leonardo da Vinci's 16th century masterpiece the Mona Lisa.   (AP Photo)
A woman views the Mona Lisa at the Louvre.
A woman views the Mona Lisa at the Louvre.   (AP Photo)
« Prev« Prev | Next »Next » Slideshow
OFF THE GRID
11.23.09
Books Are Bad for You
11.20.09
The Health-Care Wars Have Just Begun
10 comments
VIEWING:
 
youngblood
Aug 11, 09 2:10 PM CDT
Now do u see why France didn't grant her nationality?!! Reply
Vote up! Vote down!
+11
IN RESPONSE:
Kookey90
Aug 11, 09 7:20 PM CDT
Radzyn, Just to let you know that I'm praying for you. Good luck on protecting that Marvel comic poster of yours; you imght consider putting it in a vault.
Vote up! Vote down!
-2
Radzyn
Aug 11, 09 4:38 PM CDT
Sounds like my wife :) Just today I had to duck a coffee mug and a pair of scissors because I asked her how she managed to down an entire gallon of ice cream by during the time after I went to bed last night and before woke up this morning. She also taught me three new Russian cursewords. Reply
Vote up! Vote down!
+5
IN RESPONSE:
jenna
Aug 11, 09 4:40 PM CDT
That's funny!!
Vote up! Vote down!
+2
IN RESPONSE:
Kookey90
Aug 11, 09 5:19 PM CDT
Hey Radzyn, the big question is if she did any damage to your copy of the Mona Lisa. By the way, I'm sorry to hear about your wife, she sounds worse than mine.
Vote up! Vote down!
0

View all 10 comments »

LEAVE A
COMMENT Comment Policy
Facebook ConnectPost this comment to Facebook?

After connecting you will have the option to post your comment on your Facebook profile.

 

Related Newser Stories

26 Stories

Obama Had Hand in Secret Talks With Iran

Worked out deal with France, Russia to process uranium

Oct 20, 09 10:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama personally stepped in multiple times during the secret multinational talks with Iran that led up to the negotiations that began yesterday in Vienna, White House sources tell Time. When Iran put the word out that it needed enriched uranium plates for its aging research reactor, the Obama... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Iran • nuclear proliferation • Russia • Barack Obama • France • nuclear program

 Zut Alors! 
 French 
 Attack 
 Big Macs 
 at Louvre 

Wake up and smell the French fries, Mona Lisa

Oct 5, 09 3:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - News that a McDonald's will open just yards from the entrance of the Louvre museum has sent lovers of French culture into conniptions. “This is the pinnacle of exhausting consumerism, deficient gastronomy and very unpleasant odors in the context of a museum,” sniffed one art historian who works... More »

MORE ABOUT:
McDonald's • France • museum • The Louvre

Missing Picasso Found in Iraq?! Probably Not.

The Naked Woman likely not missing, nor
a Picasso, say experts

Aug 27, 09 3:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iraqi security forces have secured a purported Pablo Picasso painting believed stolen from a Kuwaiti museum during the 1990 invasion, the Times of London reports. Only it’s probably not a Picasso. “It bears absolutely no relation to any Picasso that I can think of,” says one... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Iraq • Saddam Hussein • art museum • war • Kuwait • The Louvre • Pablo Picasso • art heist • forgery • invasion

26 Stories


Crime & Courts  •  Arts & Living  •  World 
TwitterFollow @NewserCrime on Twitter

 
Russia • art museum • France • citizenship • Mona Lisa • The Louvre • Leonardo da Vinci

from our news partners

CinemaBlend.com