Three people were arrested by Dutch police on Thursday after environmental activists targeted the painting The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer, we learned from the Mauritshuis in The Hague and the police.
Two people approached the painting and a third threw an unknown substance on it, but the work, protected under glass, was not damaged, the Mauritshuis said in a statement to AFP. Images on social media showed activists wearing ‘Just Stop Oil’ T-shirts.
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