Climate activists in Spain glued their hands to Francisco de Goya’s famous paintings in 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 photograph the scene.
The works concerned – from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries – include the artists “La Maja Vestida” and “La Maja Desnuda”: La Maja dressed and La Maja nude.
On the wall between the two works a temperature was painted: “+1.5 C”
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Activists stick to Goya’s “Las Majas” to protest against the climate emergency
(Courtesy of FuturoVegetal via Reuters)
“Last week the United Nations recognized the impossibility of keeping us below the limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius (set in the 2016 Paris climate agreement). We need a change now,” reads a tweet with a photo of the couple.
The museum said his paintings had not been damaged and the graffiti had been painted.
“We condemn the use of the museum as a place to make a political protest of any kind,” he said.
Police and Futuro Vegetal said two people were 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 Vegetal said the pair were removed using a solvent.
This marks the latest in a series of protests by climate activists, which have impacted famous works of art.
Protesters tried to glue themselves 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 sunflower paintings.
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Those works were covered.
All of this precedes the GOP27 conference on climate change in Egypt, which will take place starting on Sunday.
Reuters contributed to this report.
