Police were called to the scene this week after Spanish artist Adri谩n Pino Olivera posed naked - except for a black robe - in front of the Leonardo da Vinci artwork, known in French as La Joconde.
Olivera, who posed in broad daylight in a series of deliberately-provocative positions, was arrested and spent 24 hours in prison, and later banned for life from the Louvre.
He then posted the evidence on his Instagram account - on which he describes himself as a 鈥減erformer鈥� - as part of his wider project to take naked photos in front of famous artworks and monuments across Europe.
His other poses include shots in front of the famous Dejeuner Sur l鈥橦erbe painting by 脡douard Manet, which is hanging in the Mus茅e d'Orsay; the David statue in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence, Italy; in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin; by the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen; and in the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, Spain.
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Olivera also poses in a way that obviously hides his male genitalia, which, he says, is part of the project鈥檚 message to promote his idea of a matriarchal society, instead of the elements of the 鈥渕asculine world I hate鈥�.
He began the project in March 2017, and hopes to be finished by December this year, covering 22 exhibitions in total.
