Mary Richardson, the attacker of the Rokeby Venus in 1914, compared the physical beauty of the woman in the painting to the beautiful character of:
A) Rosa Parks
B) Marie Antoinette
C) the director of the National Gallery in London
D) Florence Nightingale
E) Emmeline Pankhurst

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Mary Richardson was a suffragette and a supporter of Emmeline Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union. She believed that the ideal of beauty portrayed in paintings like the Rokeby Venus was a tool of oppression and objectification of women. Therefore, she compared the physical beauty of the woman in the painting with the beauty of the character of the women's suffrage movement, such as Emmeline Pankhurst.

Mary Richardson, the Attacker of the Rokeby Venus in 1914