Climate activists glue hands to Goya paintings in Spain's Prado Museum
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Loading... - Audrey Davis
- 07 Nov 2022
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Climate activists in Spain glued their hands to famous paintings by Francisco de Goya in Madrid's Prado museum on Saturday.
A video posted to the Twitter account of the campaign group Futuro Vegetal showed a docent asking visitors not to take pictures of the scene.
The impacted works – from the 18th and 19th centuries – include the artists "La Maja Vestida" and "La Maja Desnuda": The Clothed Maja and the Naked Maja.
A temperature was painted on the wall between the two works: "+1.5 C"
"Last week the UN recognized the impossibility of keeping us below the limit of 1.5 Celsius (set in the 2016 Paris climate agreement). We need change now," a tweet with a photo of the pair said.
The museum said its paintings had not been damaged and that the graffiti was painted over.
"We condemn the use of the museum as a place to make a political protest of any kind," it said.
Police and Futuro Vegetal said two people had been arrested. Read More…
