Gallery workers stated a local weather activist affixed the world-famous “Girl with a Pearl Earring” portray to glass at a museum in The Hague on Thursday, though the art work was not broken.
The Mauritius Museum stated a second employee caught his hand on the wall subsequent to a 1665 work by Dutch grasp Johannes Vermeer and an unknown liquid was thrown.
An unverified video on social media exhibits two males, each sporting “Just Stop Oil” T-shirts, close to the portray.
“The police were informed and three people have been arrested. The condition of the painting was inspected by our restorer. Fortunately, the glass-covered masterworks were not damaged,” stated the museum.
Earlier this month, Just Stop Oil activists threw soup at Vincent van Gogh’s portray “Sunflowers” on the National Gallery in London. That portray was additionally shielded with glass.
In a Dutch museum video posted on-line on Thursday, one of many males says: “How do you feel when you see some beautiful and priceless object being destroyed before your eyes?”
“That’s the same feeling when you see the planet being destroyed,” he says.
In the video, two males have been seen being taken away by the police in additional footage.
Dutch police stated in an announcement that that they had arrested three Belgian males, aged 40, on expenses of harm to public property and have been conducting a forensic investigation. He was being interrogated.
An announcement from Just Stop Oil stated its employees have been accountable and had thrown the soup.
“The message is clear: If humanity doesn’t stop using fossil fuels immediately, it will go extinct,” it stated. “They will never desecrate a work of art covered with protective glass.”
Dutch Junior Culture Minister Gunay Uslu stated, “Everyone has the right to have their say. But please: leave our shared heritage alone. Attacking defenseless works of art is not the right way.”
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
