Climate activists in Spain glued their hands to famous paintings by Francisco de Goya at Madrid’s Prado museum on Saturday.
A video posted on the Twitter account of the Futuro Vegetal campaign group showed a teacher asking visitors not to take photographs of the scene.
The impacted works -from the 18th and 19th centuries- include the artists “La Maja Vestida” and “La Maja Desnuda”: La Maja Vestida and La Maja Desnuda.
A temperature was painted on the wall between the two works: “+1.5 C”
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Activists stick to Goya’s “Las Majas” in protest of the climate emergency
(Courtesy: FuturoVegetal via Reuters)
“Last week the UN recognized the impossibility of staying below the 1.5 degree Celsius limit (set in the 2016 Paris climate agreement). We need change now,” read a tweet with a photo of the couple.
The museum said its paintings were undamaged and the graffiti was covered with paint.
“We condemn the use of the museum as a venue for political protest of any kind,” he said.
Police and Futuro Vegetal said two people had been arrested.
Facade of the Prado Museum, on November 5, 2022, in Madrid, Spain.
(Juan Barbosa/Europa Press via Getty Images)
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Future Vegetable said the pair was removed with a solvent.
This marks the latest event in a series of protests by climate activists, impacting famous works of art.
Protesters tried to stick to the glass covering Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” and others threw tomato soup on Van Gogh’s “The Sower” and one of his Sunflowers paintings.
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Those works were covered.
All of this comes ahead of the GOP27 climate change conference in Egypt, which is due to take place from Sunday.
Reuters contributed to this report.
