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.
That painting- I won't attempt the Dutch- was universally known as "Young girl in a turban" right up until feminists decided that the pearl was a code for a certain something ca. 1990. Pearls were common- the turban was near eastern exotica. The colour blue was the real expensive, ostentatious, luxury.
First thing I thought of was that painting. I looked it up in my blog because I remembered writing about it, but that was 2014 and centered on research that linked the artist to using a camera obscura. The painting is dated as around 1665.
Oh the things our dogs put up with LOL.
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That painting- I won't attempt the Dutch- was universally known as "Young girl in a turban" right up until feminists decided that the pearl was a code for a certain something ca. 1990. Pearls were common- the turban was near eastern exotica. The colour blue was the real expensive, ostentatious, luxury.
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ReplyDeleteFirst thing I thought of was that painting. I looked it up in my blog because I remembered writing about it, but that was 2014 and centered on research that linked the artist to using a camera obscura. The painting is dated as around 1665.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good looking dog right there.
Okay, this is funny.
ReplyDeleteNow THAT is hilarious!
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ReplyDeleteThat's funny, and well done. But I don't think the dog's ear really looks like that, and I don't think it's pierced either.
ReplyDeleteThe forehead, the eyes, the cheek and jaw line, and the ear. None look like dog. Very well blended.
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