2023-12-05 14:51:49
‘Venus in the Mirror’, by Velázquez, already hangs in the National Gallery in London, almost four weeks after it was removed from the room where it is exhibited, after suffering a brutal hammer attack by climate activists from the group Just Stop Oil on November 6.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the London museum said that the painting was exhibited again on Friday, December 1 after conservation treatment by minor damage suffered on the surface of the paint and the installation of a new crystal. “We are delighted to have it on display again.”
Let us remember that the November 6thshortly before 11 in the morning two people entered the room 30 of the National Gallery and they began to hit the painting hard with hammers. This beautiful work, a symbol of feminine beauty, is one of the museum’s greatest treasures. It will be provided, as planned, to the Walker Gallery de Liverpool in May 2024 as part of the pinacoteca’s bicentennial celebrations.
The painting was already attacked by suffragette Mary Richardson on March 10, 1914, leaving the painting severely damaged, after making eight cuts in the canvas with a butcher knife. It was an act of protest against the treatment of the women’s suffrage leader. Emmeline Pankhurst, who had been arrested the day before. “I have tried to destroy the image of the most beautiful woman in mythological history,” Richardson told police after the attack, “as a protest against the Government for destroying Mrs Pankhurst, who is the most beautiful character in modern history. », recalls ‘Art Newspaper’.
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