This is one of the disturbing Painting I have seen . It's called "Market in Piazza del Municipio". It's about the punishment of several ladies in public because they sold rotten eggs from their market stall . The punishment is to be pelted with a basket full of the same eggs by a group of men. This actually happened in 1790 and it shows a form of cruelty and an uncaring society as they relish the spectacle watch on by smiling groups of men and women. What do you think?
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Some of the newspaper reports of the lynchings in the early 20th century make this look incredibly tame. Embarrassing, yes. But they were still alive afterwards.
@bijouxbroussard And this wrong, There should be no punishment for this kind of mistake. A bunch of male thugs with Eggs as throwing ammo to defenseless women
@bijouxbroussard justice for women today can be unjust as it can be for anyone I guess. But looking at today's justice doesn't change the lack of justice in this painting
@bijouxbroussard I agree with that totally. But we can comment on lives and stories from the past describing the justice or whatever from the evidence we see
