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.
Saturday, August 15, 2026
Zinaida Serebriakova’s At the Dressing-Table (Self-Portrait) is a 1909 oil-on-canvas Has a very contemporary look
Wow, give her some ink and a septum ring and you would think it was painted yesterday.
ReplyDeleteAnd a cell phone (aka 'device').
DeleteWould. She's beautiful.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful woman and extremely talented artist.
ReplyDeleteShe had a horribly tragic later life, unfortunately.