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Nero's Torches (Polish: Pochodnie Nerona) is an 1876 oil-on-canvas painting by the Polish artist Henryk Siemiradzki. It is also known as Candlesticks of Christianity ( Świeczniki chrześcijaństwa ).
Mother and Children; N. Nero's Torches; P. Pietà (Bouguereau) Place du Chenil in Marly, Snow Effect; Le Pont de l'Europe; Portrait of Marguerite de Conflans;
Sporus (died 69 AD) was a young slave boy whom the Roman emperor Nero had castrated and married as his empress during his tour of Greece in 66–67 AD, allegedly in order for him to play the role of his wife, Poppaea Sabina, who had died the previous year.
The Commune is described as Nero's child. [63] According to Paul de Saint-Victor: [64] "In the afterglow of the Paris fire, the world saw how similar tyranny and demagogy are. Nero, through the centuries, passed his torch to Babeuf." In these speeches, the revolutionary is ultimately no more than a barbarian, an enemy of beauty. [16]
Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki (24 October 1843 – 23 August 1902) was a Polish [1] [2] painter. He spent most of his active creative life in Rome.Best remembered for his monumental academic art, he is particularly known for his depictions of scenes from the ancient Greek-Roman world and the New Testament, owned by many national galleries of Europe.
Nero's Torches, by Henryk Siemiradzki. According to Tacitus, Nero used Christians as human torches. During the Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire, many early Christians were executed by being doused with tar, pitch and oil, and set alight in Rome. According to Tacitus, the Roman Emperor Nero used Christians as human torches. As such ...
Nero's Torches by Henryk Siemiradzki. According to Tacitus, Nero targeted Christians as those responsible for the fire. According to Tacitus, Nero was away from Rome, in Antium, when the fire broke out. Nero returned to the city and took measures to bring in food supplies and to open gardens and public buildings to accommodate refugees. [17]
April – Impressionist exhibition at the house of Paul Durand-Ruel, 11 rue Peletier, in Paris, accompanied by Louis Edmond Duranty's essay The New Painting. May 16 – German American "Napoleon of crime" Adam Worth steals Gainsborough's Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire from Agnew's gallery in Old Bond Street, London three weeks after its sale at Christie's for 10,000 guineas, the ...