Climate activists glue hands to Goya paintings in Spain's Prado Museum - Fox News

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Climate activists successful Spain glued their hands to famous paintings by Francisco de Goya successful Madrid's Prado depository connected Saturday. 

A video posted to the Twitter relationship of the run radical Futuro Vegetal showed a docent asking visitors not to instrumentality pictures of the scene. 

The impacted works – from the 18th and 19th centuries – see the artists "La Maja Vestida" and "La Maja Desnuda": The Clothed Maja and the Naked Maja. 

A somesthesia was painted connected the partition betwixt the 2 works: "+1.5 C"

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Activists glue themselves to Goya's "Las Majas" successful  protestation  to clime  emergency

Activists glue themselves to Goya's "Las Majas" successful protestation to clime emergency (Courtesy: FuturoVegetal via Reuters)

"Last week the UN recognized the impossibility of keeping america beneath the bounds of 1.5 Celsius (set successful the 2016 Paris clime agreement). We request alteration now," a tweet with a photograph of the brace said. 

The depository said its paintings had not been damaged and that the graffiti was painted over.

"We condemn the usage of the depository arsenic a spot to marque a governmental protestation of immoderate kind," it said.

Police and Futuro Vegetal said 2 radical had been arrested.

Facade of the Prado Museum, connected  Nov. 5, 2022, successful  Madrid, Spain. 

Facade of the Prado Museum, connected Nov. 5, 2022, successful Madrid, Spain.  (Juan Barbosa/Europa Press via Getty Images)

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Futuro Vegetal said the brace were removed utilizing a solvent.

This marks the latest lawsuit successful a drawstring of protests by clime activists, impacting celebrated works of art. 

Protesters tried to glue themselves to the solid covering Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and others threw herb crockery connected Van Gogh's "The Sower" and 1 of his Sunflowers paintings.

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Those works were covered.

All this comes up of the GOP27 clime alteration league successful Egypt, acceptable to instrumentality spot starting connected Sunday.

Reuters contributed to this report.

Julia Musto is simply a newsman for Fox News and Fox Business Digital. 

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