Delacroix painted this in 1830 right after watching Paris tear itself apart. Liberty's bare chest isn't scandal. It's allegory. Exposed skin meant divinity in classical art. She's not a woman, she's an idea made flesh. And she has followers: a kid with pistols, a man in a top hat, workers with swords. Everyone. She doesn't belong to one class. Delacroix put himself in the painting too, the man with the rifle. A painting borrowed by every uprising since.