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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damien Gayle

Just Stop Oil campaigners glue themselves to Da Vinci copy in Royal Academy

Protesters from the Just Stop Oil climate protest group glue their hands to the frame of a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper inside the Royal Academy on Tuesday.
Protesters from the Just Stop Oil climate protest group glue their hands to the frame of a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper inside the Royal Academy on Tuesday. Photograph: James Manning/PA

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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