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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damian Carrington

Da Vinci sketch recreated on melting Arctic ice - big picture

Artist John Quigley recreate for Greenpeace Da Vinci's sketch The Vitruvian Man, from copper on the Arctic sea ice
Leonardo da Vinci's famous Vitruvian Man has been recreated by an artist in the Arctic to highlight melting ice. John Quigley, who travelled on a Greenpeace icebreaker to create the copper artwork in the Fram Strait, between Greenland and Norwegian Svalbard, said: 'We created the Melting Vitruvian Man because climate change is literally eating into the body of our civilisation'. This September could mark the lowest sea ice minimum on record
Illustration: Greenpeace/Nick Cobbing
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