Climate activists glued their hands to the frames of two world-famous paintings by Spanish master Francisco de Goya in Madrid's Prado museum on Saturday, the latest in a string of protests targeting artworks across Europe.
A man and a woman attached themselves to Goya's "La Maja Vestida" and his "La Maja Desnuda" , and painted "+1.5 C" on the wall between the two works, video footage showed."Last week the UN recognised the impossibility of keeping us below the limit of 1.5 Celsius . We need change now," it wrote on Twitter.
Groups of climate activists have mounted a series of similar protests in recent weeks in the build-up to theProtesters tried to glue themselves to the glass covering Vermeer's "
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