New raid at Uffizi against Botticelli's Primavera. Sangiuliano: Eco-vandals will pay out of their own pockets.

Ultima Generazione hit the Uffizi again with another raid yesterday morning around 12 noon.25: Five activists attached leaflets with images of the Campi Bisenzio flooding to the protective glass of Botticelli ’s Primavera and on the wall, as had already happened on Feb. 13, when two Ultima Generazione activists attached images of last fall’s Campi Bisenzio flooding to the protective glass of Botticelli’s Venus, an act that was followed by a 20,000-euro fine to each of the activists.

Museum staff turned off the hall lights, inviting visitors to leave. Law enforcement officers responded to the scene.

“Again we stuck pictures of the floods on the windows of the artworks to demand a #FundReparation to the damages of climate disasters,” the movement wrote in a social post. “Today this burden is huge. What is the point of this spring without more winter? What sense does it make to deify works of art while the sanctity of life is raped by bombs on unarmed civilians? We want to call for a Spring of fire, a Spring of justice where people are safe from climate collapse.”

"These eco-vandals will pay out of their own pockets: in addition to being referred to the judicial authorities, the perpetrators of this umpteenth disfigurement to the sanctity of our cultural heritage have been fined to pay for the restoration of the decorum of the work and the rooms of the Uffizi Gallery where it is Botticelli’s Primavera is housed, as provided for in the legislation sought by this government to counter pseudo-activists who improperly make our museums their stage to the disregard of those who visit them and those who work there," Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano commented. “Grave, moreover, that this happened on a day of celebration for Italian culture, such as Sunday at the museum, when many citizens visit Italian museums and archaeological sites for free to enjoy the beauty that our nation has inherited from its illustrious past.”

New raid at Uffizi against Botticelli's Primavera. Sangiuliano: Eco-vandals will pay out of their own pockets.

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