Note: Libertarian Girl is off to Europe, but while she’s away she’ll be updating with previously written posts about politics and life in the places she’s visiting. She’ll soon be back to her regularly scheduled Libertarian Girl programming.
Today I’ll be flying from Venice into Paris, where I don’t think I can escape from seeing the Louvre again. The Louvre has a vast collection, but one of its most famous paintings within pop culture is Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix.
You can see why.
It’s appropriate, because the Louvre was one of the first state art collections to be opened to the public; the privilege of seeing this artwork was considered to be one of the true benefits of the French Revolution and the more free and open society that resulted in the end.
Liberte, Equalite, Fraternite!
I saw this in person at the Louvre when i was in Europe in 2007, and its such an awesome painting, I love it(:
Nyssa Gehring
June 2nd, 2009