Activist glues his head to 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' painting in The Hague - Reuters

AMSTERDAM, Oct 27 (Reuters) - A clime activistic glued his caput to solid covering the world-famous "Girl with a Pearl Earring" coating astatine a depository successful The Hague connected Thursday, though the artwork was not damaged, assemblage unit said.

A 2nd activistic glued their manus to the partition adjacent to the 1665 enactment by Dutch maestro Johannes Vermeer, and an unidentified liquid was thrown, the Mauritshuis depository said.

An unverified video connected societal media showed 2 men adjacent the painting, some wearing "Just Stop Oil" T-shirts.

"The constabulary were notified and 3 radical person been arrested. The information of the coating was inspected by our restorer. Fortunately, the glass-covered masterwork was not damaged," the depository said.

Earlier this month, Just Stop Oil activists threw soup implicit Vincent van Gogh’s coating "Sunflowers" astatine London's National Gallery. That coating was besides shielded by glass.

In videos from the Dutch depository posted online connected Thursday, 1 of the men says: "How bash you consciousness erstwhile you spot thing beauteous and priceless being seemingly destroyed earlier your precise eyes?"

"That is that aforesaid feeling erstwhile you spot the satellite being destroyed," helium adds.

The 2 men successful the video were seen being escorted distant by constabulary successful much footage.

Dutch constabulary said successful a connection they had arrested 3 Belgian men successful their 40s for harm to nationalist spot and were conducting a forensic investigation. They were being questioned.

A connection from Just Stop Oil said its activists were liable and had thrown soup.

"The connection is clear: if humanity does not instantly halt utilizing fossil fuels, it volition go extinct," it said. "They would ne'er defile a enactment of creation not covered with protective glass."

Dutch Junior Minister for Culture Gunay Uslu said "everyone has the close to marque a point. But please: permission our shared practice alone. Attacking defenceless works of creation is not the close way."

Reporting by Toby Sterling and Charlotte van Campenhout; Writing by Anthony Deutsch; Editing by William Maclean, Andrew Heavens and Barbara Lewis

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