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.
A portrait by Hans Holbein Jr. He managed to make a ton of European despots, and their family and friends, look sufficiently butch to intimidate their subjects. Some of these goons pretty much fit that image anyway.
This guy looks like Lee J. Cobb, but with a beard. https://en.notrecinema.com/communaute/stars/stars.php3?staridx=15899 Lee's long gone, but wow, could have been his great, eight times over, grand father.
Yet another man I would not mess with.
ReplyDeleteA portrait by Hans Holbein Jr. He managed to make a ton of European despots, and their family and friends, look sufficiently butch to intimidate their subjects. Some of these goons pretty much fit that image anyway.
ReplyDeleteRemarkably lifelike painting. I look at paintings like this and compare them to modern art, and it's hard not to wonder where things went so wrong.
DeleteIs there some meaning or symbolism of the left hand wearing a glove but not the right hand?
This guy looks like Lee J. Cobb, but with a beard. https://en.notrecinema.com/communaute/stars/stars.php3?staridx=15899
ReplyDeleteLee's long gone, but wow, could have been his great, eight times over, grand father.
Painted by the devil himself.....
ReplyDeleteHe'sa a bad mama jamma.
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