so you also talk about, for example, monet? uh-huh. what do we see there? monet, it s surprising to people he actually painted into the 20th century. at the end of world war i gave his great waterlily series to the nation of france to commemorate the victory. you talk about freedom. where do you see the freedom? what is he trying to capture? what monet was very passionate about was the third republic and the democracy that was so hard won in france. he wanted to use the paintings, as i said, to commemorate the victory, the great victory of france. he was very close friends to the prime minister at the time. one that s so familiar to all of us, michael angelo s, the david, how does that apply? with the david what s exciting about that is people think of it as an ideal of beauty. what it was, it was a commemoration of the republic of florence. michael angelo was very politically active. he deliberately created that to be a warning to florentines.