Van Gogh not damaged by soup thrown by climate activists

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 4 - A Van Gogh painting on show in Rome was behind glass and thus not damaged by soup thrown by climate activists Friday, the head of the exhibition's organising company told ANSA.
    "We were expecting it, (there has been) no damage but it is a useless gesture," said Arthemisia President and Managing Director Iole Siena.
    The four climate activists threw vegetable soup on Van Gogh's The Sower in Rome's Palazzo Bonaparte museum, before glueing themselves to the wall and shouting slogans against the use of carbon fuels and about the existential threat posed by climate change.
    The Sower is on loan from the Kröller-Müller Museum in the Dutch town of Otterlo for an exhibition of Van Gogh works in the former Napoleonic residence in the Italian capital. (ANSA).