Just Stop Oil campaigners glue themselves to Da Vinci copy in Royal Academy
by Damien Gayle from Environment | The Guardian on (#613AY)
Protesters from the coalition have staged disruptions at major British museums five times in the past week
Five supporters of the Just Stop Oil coalition have glued themselves to a 500-year-old depiction of The Last Supper in London's Royal Academy, the fifth time in a week that it has disrupted a major British art institution.
The activists struck just before noon, supergluing their hands to the frame of the 3-metre-long painting - a reproduction of the Leonardo da Vinci original attributed to his pupil, Giampietrino.
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