Mask watch - update

I popped into Rochdale today to pick up a prescription. On the first day of mandatory mask wearing, every single customer in Boots was wearing one as were most of the people wandering around the town. I was impressed.

In other news, the kitchen project was delayed today. The base units were supposed to be delivered but the company making them have only just returned from furlough and are catching-up.  We now hope they will be delivered on Monday.

As the Revolution took place in 1789, Citizen David was firmly on the side of the Nation.  Despite that, he had some seriously wealthy patrons, which could have been embarrassing or even fatal for him. One work commissioned by the Crown but completed after the fall of the King epitomised the transition. 

The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons is another painting of an ancient Roman tale. The sons of Roman Consul Lucius Junius Brutus (not be be confused with Marcus Brutus, the later assassin of Julius Caesar) had been involved in a plot to restore the former kings - the Tarquins. Brutus ordered the execution of his own sons as principle vanquished family sentiment. This dramatic scene was presented to the revolutionaries as a declaration of allegiance - as nothing could be allowed to restore the tyranny of the monarchy.

PS "Lictors" were, in ancient Rome, officers attending a consul or other magistrate, bearing the fasces and executing sentence on offenders.  Early Facists then?