Protestors at Uffizi glue hands to glass protecting Botticelli’s ‘Spring’

Sandro Botticelli’s masterpiece, ‘La Primavera (Spring),’ photographed in February 2011. On July 22, activists protesting climate change glued their hands to the glass covering the painting, which was unharmed. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit DcoetzeeBot. The work is in the public domain because it was published or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office before January 1, 1927.
Sandro Botticelli’s masterpiece, ‘La Primavera (Spring),’ photographed in February 2011. On July 22, activists protesting climate change glued their hands to the glass covering the painting, which was unharmed. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit DcoetzeeBot. The work is in the public domain because it was published or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office before January 1, 1927.
Sandro Botticelli’s masterpiece, ‘La Primavera (Spring),’ photographed in February 2011. On July 22, activists protesting climate change glued their hands to the glass covering the painting, which was unharmed. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit DcoetzeeBot. The work is in the public domain because it was published or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office before January 1, 1927.

ROME (AP) – On July 22, Italian environmental activists glued their hands to the glass protecting Sandro Botticelli’s painting Spring in the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, police said. The museum said thanks to the glass, which was installed as a precaution several years ago, the masterpiece was unharmed.

Continue reading