In a video posted on social media, two women can be seen throwing soup at the glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece and passing under a security barrier to get closer to the painting
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A group of French analysts suggest that the Renaissance painter, who liked to experiment, used a mixture of oil with lead oxide for the first layer of La Gioconda
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Italian historian Carlo Vecce claims the Renaissance master was born to Caterina, a young woman from the Caucasus, who was trafficked to Florence as a child