Pavel Svedomsky (1849-1904). Fulvia With the Head of Cicero (1870)
Today is the traditional date (according to that great friend of the Roman nobility Tacitus) of the death of the wife of Mark Antony, Fulvia, who had the Roman orator and archconservative Cicero killed for her own delight, and shocked her dinner guests by stuffing stuffed olives into the mouth of the beheaded.
