Climate activists poured vegetable soup over Van Gogh’s work ‘The sower before the setting sun’ in Rome on Friday. The work is currently on display in the Palazzo Bonaparte museum complex in central Rome and is on loan from the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands, for an exhibition of Van Gogh’s work in the former Napoleonic residence in the Italian capital.
The climate activists threw vegetable soup at the glass-protected plant and shouted anti-coal and anti-climate slogans. Immediately after the action, the security services intervened and immediately closed the exhibition rooms and chased the visitors away. The action of the organization “Ultima Generazione” follows similar attacks on works of art by other climate defenders.
“Ultima Generazione” is the Italian branch of the global environmental organization “Extinction Rebellion”, which has already staged similar protests in other foreign museums. As with the other attacks, the work is not damaged because it is hung behind glass.
The painting “The sower before the setting sun” belongs to a series of paintings that Vincent van Gogh painted in Arles in the course of 1888.
Source: Krone
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