TIL that in 1914, the suffragette Mary Richardson walked into the National Gallery in the UK and attacked Velázquez's painting “Rokeby Venus” with a meat cleaver. en.wikipedia.org Submitted by DrFolAmour007 t3_y4luyc on October 15, 2022 at 11:45 AM in todayilearned 11 comments 92
DeathStarJedi t1_isp6z22 wrote on October 17, 2022 at 5:49 PM She added in a 1952 interview that she did not like "the way men visitors gaped at it all day long". Def caught her husband up in that museum one too many times Permalink 1
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