The frames of ‘Las Majas’ by Goya have “slight damage”

The Museo Nacional del Prado hopes to open this Sunday the room where ‘The Naked Maja’ and ‘The Dressed Maja’, by Francisco de Goya, are found, after two environmental activists have stuck to the frame of the paintings this Saturday, according to informed government sources. The museum has already mobilized a painter for the wall and the brigade in charge of placing the works, so the room is expected to open this Sunday. The same sources indicate that the glue and spray paint used by the activists to attack the works were made of plastic to avoid the metal detector. The museum has condemned the act of protest and has assured that “the works They have not suffered any damage, although the frames have slight flaws”. “We are working to return to normality as soon as possible,” he assured in a message on his Twitter account. “We reject endangering cultural heritage as a means of protest,” he concluded. Extreme surveillance and security measures This statement It is in line with what the museum’s director, Miguel Falomir, said just two weeks ago, stating that there are “much more intelligent ways” to defend “noble causes.” “Doing things this way, the opposite is achieved,” he added. On October 24, the Ministry of Culture sent a communication to all national museums to urge them to take extreme security measures and be exhaustive in complying with the access rules that visitors must already comply with to access the site. These regulations include the prohibition of bringing elements and drinks into the rooms, backpacks and large packages, umbrellas or sharp objects. Rebellion or Extinction and Scientific Rebellion that pursues the resolution of the climate crisis through the adoption of a plant-based agri-food system. Young people have hit each other after writing the message ‘+1.5º’ on the wall to “alert about the rise in global temperature that will cause an unstable climate and serious consequences for the entire planet”. “I am stuck here because last week the UN made it official that it is already impossible to contain global warming at 1.5º, exceeding the limits set in the Paris Agreement and compromising our food security,” said one of the activists. He also assured that, despite the fact that 2021 was the year or with the highest CO2 emissions in history, the necessary measures have not been taken to correct this reality. The other young woman who has stuck to Goya’s work has demanded that the Government end subsidies for livestock and use them to promote alternatives based on plants to deal with scenarios such as the 2.5º one foreseen by the UN. From Futuro Vegetal they have assured that the objective of this type of action is to communicate the emergency situation that the Earth is facing. It is not the only protest of this type that has taken place in recent weeks. In addition to the one carried out by Just Stop Oil at the National Gallery on October 14, yesterday other environmental activists from the ‘Last Generation’ movement threw vegetable puree on the four ‘The Sower’ by Vincent Van Gogh, exhibited in the Palace museum Bonaparte, in the capital of Italy, Rome, as part of an exhibition dedicated to the Dutch painter.