10 March
Suffragette Mary ’slasher’ Richardson attacks Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus with a meat cleaver on this day in 1914
In a later statement to the Women’s Social and Political Union, reprinted by the press of the time, she said,
‘I have tried to destroy the picture of the most beautiful woman in mythological history as a protest against the Government for destroying Mrs Pankhurst, who is the most beautiful character in modern history. Justice is an element of beauty as much as colour and outline on canvas.’
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