Actually, it’s the burning of the heretic Giordano Bruno at the dawn of the 15th century NICE TRY AARON

dadsbigplan:

OMG.  How obtuse can you get?  It’s so very obviously a painting demonizing Millard Filmore’s betrayal of Zachary Taylor over the Compromise of 1850, that traitorous and amoral document put together by Henry Clay.

I mean, C’MON! It’s all right there!

cmg420:

I don’t get it.

chriscantwell:

This is me today, as in this entire scene is taking place over and over in my mind at a deafening volume.

9:53 pm  •  2 September 2008