GIVEN it’s been stolen, spray-painted and attacked with a cup of tea, touching the Mona Lisa is one of the rarest treats in the world.

    But there’s now an easy way to get hands-on with da Vinci’s masterwork — after a gallery introduced a 3D version for the blind.

    A replica of the 16th Century portrait, whose real-life counterpart is behind bulletproof glass in the Louvre, is at Madrid’s Prado Museum in a bid to inspire art-lovers with a new perspective.

    Five other classics are represented by artists including Italian master Antonio da Correggio, Spaniard Diego Velázquez and the Romantic painter Francisco Goya.

    Visitors are free to touch the works, with audio guides and Braille descriptions to add to the experience — while fully-sighted guests can join in by donning blackout glasses.

    Painted from around 1503, the real Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911 and is now one of the world’s best-protected artworks.

    Vandals threw rocks and acid at the work in 1956 and in 2009 a Russian tourist hurled a cup of English Breakfast tea — which shattered harmlessly on its protective glass box.(SD-Agencies)