Christian Martyr Drowned in the Tiber During the Reign of
Diocletian
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| Author: Hippolyte
Delaroche |
| Painting, Oil on canvas, 73.5x60 cm |
| Origin: France, 1853 |
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The idea for this painting came to Delaroche during a time of
severe illness. It deals with the terrible persecution suffered by
Christians during the first century AD. The effective contrast of
the crimson sunset and the cold, cold, greenish-blue tones of the
water, with its reflections of that mystical light which
illuminates the face of the martyr thrown into the Tiber with her
hands tied, gives the painting a very Romantic feel. A contemporary
of Delaroche, the writer Theophile Gautier, poetically described
this image as that of "the Christian Ophelia" and was particularly
admiring of the face "of virginal purity and divine beauty".
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| Source of entry: Kamennoostrovsky Palace,
Leningrad, 1924 |
| Theme: The Bible and
Christianity |
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