Greece's National Gallery said a Greek lawmaker on Monday attacked four paintings in an exhibition at the museum in Athens, including one he had previously criticized as offensive on religious grounds.

Greek MP Nikolaos Papadopoulos was detained after allegedly vandalizing artworks at Athens' National Gallery. Belonging to the ultra-religious Niki party, he considered the pieces blasphemous. The gallery,

A far-right Greek lawmaker attacked four paintings in an exhibition at the country's National Gallery on Monday, the gallery said, after he had described one as offensive because of its distorted depictions of Christ and the Virgin Mary.

Greek police detained a member of parliament Monday after he allegedly attacked art works which are part of at an exhibition in the country’s National Gallery in Athens. Nikolaos Papadopoulos, who is a member of the small ultra-religious Niki party,