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Henryk Siemiradzki · 1899
Henryk Siemiradzki
Russian Empire · 1843–1902
Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki was a Polish painter. He spent most of his active creative life in Rome. Best remembered for his large history paintings in the Academic style, he is particularly known for his depictions of scenes from the ancient Greco-Roman world and the New Testament, owned by many national galleries of Europe. Many Siemiradzki paintings depict scenes from antiquity, often the sunlit pastoral scenes or compositions presenting the lives of early Christians. He also painted biblical and historical scenes, landscapes, and portraits.
Known works
Nero's Torches
Henryk Siemiradzki · 1876
National Museum in Kraków
Nero's Torches (Polish: Pochodnie Nerona) is an 1876 oil-on-canvas painting by the Polishartist Henryk Siemiradzki. It is also known as Candlesticks of Christianity (Świeczniki chrześcijaństwa). It depicts a group of Early Christian martyrs who are about to be burned alive as the alleged perpetrators of the Great Fire of Rome, during the reign of emperor Nero in 64 AD.
Phryne at the Festival of Poseidon in Eleusis
Henryk Siemiradzki · 1889
State Russian Museum
Phryne at the Festival of Poseidon in Eleusis or Phryne at the Poseidonia in Eleusis is a very large-scale history painting by the Russian-born Polish painter Henryk Siemiradzki, completed in 1889. It is part of the collection of the State Russian Museum, in Saint Petersburg. The painting depicts an anecdote about the ancient Greek courtesan Phryne, told by Athenaeus in his Deipnosophistae, in which Phryne bathes in the sea at Eleusis, thus inspiring the painter Apelles to paint his Aphrodite Anadyomene.
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