Green activists glued their hands to The Last Supper at the Royal Academy in London today in the latest in a series of high profile protests. Four Just Stop Oil supporters sprayed paint inside the Academy building in central London before gluing their hands to the frame of the famous painting.
They are calling on the Government to commit to immediately halt new oil and gas licences in the UK and for the directors, employees and members of art institutions to join the Just Stop Oil coalition in peaceful civil resistance. The Last Supper, attributed to Giampietrino, is a full-scale copy of Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous work.
Giampietrino is thought to have been a pupil of Leonardo. The painting depicts the biblical scene when Jesus announces that one of his Twelve Apostles will betray him.
