The Denialists

Woman Lamenting by a Burning City

1550-55
Pen in black, brush in brown Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

by Jan Swart van Groningen. Image: WGA

The woman might be Cassandra, the prophetess whose warnings no-one believed or one of Lot's daughters, or just any mad woman weeping for her ruined country while it's harried by politicians eating babies and kissing chips [sic] - nobody knows.

Gilded Dramas

Gilded Interiors: French Masterpieces of Gilt Bronze
exhibition at The Wallace Collection