Climate activists poured vegetable soup over Van Gogh’s “The Sower Before the Setting Sun” in Rome on Friday. The work is currently on display at 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 four climate activists threw vegetable soup at the glass-protected factory and shouted anti-coal and anti-climate slogans. Immediately after the action, security forces intervened and immediately closed the exhibition halls and kept visitors away. The action by the organization “Ultima Generazione” follows art-like attacks by other climate protectors.