Police said both the activists have been detained.
Madrid:
Police said two climate activists shook hands in the frames of two paintings by Spanish master Francisco Goya at the Prado Museum in Madrid on Saturday.
The protest did not damage the painting, but protesters scattered “+1,5C” on the wall between the two artworks, a reference to the Paris Agreement that aimed to cap warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels was.
Police said both the activists have been detained.
Climate activist group Extinction Rebellion posted a video online that showed two activists holding hands on a painting before security officers at the museum went inside.
The group said the two artworks in question were “The Naked Maja” and “The Clothed Maja”.
The group said in a statement in Spanish, the action was a protest against rising world temperatures, which “would provoke an unstable climate with dire consequences for all planets”.
It is the latest in several similar protests by climate activists targeting famous artworks in European cities.
On Friday, a group sprinkles pea soup on a Vincent van Gogh masterpiece in Rome.
“The Sower”, an 1888 painting by the Dutch artist depicting a farmer sowing his land under a dominating sun, was displayed behind glass and displayed without damage.
According to news reports, four activists were arrested.
Last Generation climate activists called their protest “a desperate and scientifically based cry that simply cannot be construed as vandalism”.
He warned that the protests would continue until more attention was paid to climate change.
Other works have seen the use of cakes or mashed potatoes in recent weeks.
He has targeted masterpieces such as “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre in Paris or “Girl with a Pearl Earring” by Johannes Vermeer at the Mauritius Museum in The Hague.
In October, the group Just Stop Oil threw tomato soup over van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” at the National Gallery of London.
All those paintings were covered with glass and were not damaged.
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