An Irish artist has recreated Leonardo Da Vinci's famous Vitruvian Man on melting Arctic ice to draw attention to the issue of climate change, Greenpeace reported on Thursday.
"We came here to create the 'Melting Vitruvian Man', after Da Vinci's famous sketch of the human body, because climate change is literally eating into the body of our civilization," artist John Quigley said.
"When he did this sketch it was the Enlightenment, the Renaissance, the dawn of this innovative age that continues to this day, but our use of fossil fuels is threatening that."
The "Melting Vitruvian Man" is made of long stretches of copper and is the size of four Olympic-sized swimming pools. It was constructed 800 kilometers from the North Pole.
