Two men pasted photos of climate disasters on the glass that protects the more than 500-year-old painting. The work had already been attacked.
The series of actions that aim to warn about climate change has not stopped since 2021. In January, the mayor of Florence, Dario Nardella, had said that "a sacrosanct battle like that of the environmental emergency cannot be fought by attacking, even if only symbolically, art and culture" The Italian Parliament approved a law in January that increases penalties for perpetrators.