And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Morion for Francesco I de Medici by Benvenuto Cellini, c. 1570.
Art (high art) over function.
ReplyDeleteIt might have still been functional, who knows? I imagine that Cellini wouldn't have wanted to get it all dented up if he could avoid it, however.
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