No. 375330
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>>375282Love me some unintentionally based anti-suffrage political cartoons
No. 375336
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>>375278aw yess time to post henriette caillaux
she was the wife of the french finance minister and in 1914 there was a press campaign agianst her husband and herself. it ended in her taking a revolver out of her fur muff to shoot and kill the director of a newspaper who'd published her private corespondance ( she got away with it)
No. 375365
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>>375279>>375280Scrotes were really worried about bicycling women back then.
No. 375395
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I love this painting, Pollice Verso, because of how enthusiastic the Vestal Virgins are while watching kek. There's another famous painting where they look more dignified, but this one has more character. Obviously, this was made centuries after the Roman Empire's peak, and while there is some debate over how well the artist depicted certain aspects of Ancient Rome, it is accurate that the Vestals were able to attend gladiator games. The artist's depiction of the Vestals is probably referencing "A Reply to the Address of Symmachus" by Prudentius, which describes a Vestal as doing the 'converso pollice' gesture to express her desire to see a gladiator be dispatched. Now, Prudentius had meant his description as an unflattering depiction of the Vestals, but there was almost certainly a gesture of that nature. Other, arguably more reliable, sources have also made references to the 'pollice verso,' which translates to, 'with thumb turned.' We don't know exactly what it looked like; most art and even some movies (like Gladiator) depict it as a thumbs-down motion, but we don't know that for a fact. The thumb could have been pointed in any number of directions.
Sorry, deleted and reposted because of some minor typos that were bothering me.