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Environmental activists pour tomato sauce over the painting “Girl with a Pearl Earring” in the Netherlands. [VIDEO]

Visitors photograph ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer at the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague, Netherlands | Font: EFE

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At least three people were arrested this Thursday in the Netherlands after leading an anti-global warming action by throwing tomato sauce next to a famous painting. Pearl Girlworks by artist Johannes Vermeer, in the Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague.

Images posted on social media show one of the activists approaching the famous painting, also known as girl in a turban wave Dutch Mona Lisaand it looks like he’s painting it over with a marker while another person pours a can of tomato sauce under the activist’s own shirt.

According to Mauritshuis, the Vermeer painting was unharmed, which has closed off the room where the painting hangs while police investigate, while other halls of the museum remain open to the public.

The two activists in the image are wearing a white T-shirt as members of the Just Stop Oil organization.

“How do you feel when you see something so beautiful and valuable shatter before your eyes? We are outraged. This painting is protected by glass. That’s good, but vulnerable people across the planet are not protected. The future of our children is not protected. People in extreme poverty have to choose between heating and food and are not protected,” says one.

Police on duty outside the Mauritshuis Museum after an attempt to desecrate Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” painting in The Hague | Font: AFP

Dutch police have confirmed the arrest of three people involved in this exposure of the climate emergency, and they are being charged with an “open assault on artistic property.”

Early attacks on art

Last Tuesday, Dutch climate activist Jelle de Graaf joined the TV table in Netherlands “talk about the climate and the ecological crisis,” during a program to which he was invited to discuss new methods of drawing attention to global warming.

The program sought to highlight recent protests by climate activists who threw food at historical paintings.

Last week, two supporters of the German group Letzte Generation (“Last Generation”) pelted mashed potatoes with a Claude Monet painting on display at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, near Berlin.

This climate action took place a week after Just Stop Oil participants poured tomato soup on the painting. sunflowers Van Gogh at the National Gallery in London. Both paintings were behind glass. (As reported by EFE)

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