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.
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