RE: [SPAM] RE: RHIZOME_RAW: republican art

> i did a bit of a search on the web for other paintings from the middle ages
> etc similar to the one above. because i seem to recall seeing similar sorts
> of 'patriotic' paintings of a king on a horse holding the severed head of an
> enemy. but i couldn't find any.

It is not so much the depcapitated head that maybe recalled, but the
allegorical legitimation via neo-clasicism. Check David's Napoleon:
http://www.illusionsgallery.com/Bonaparte.html

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