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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. People from many different social spheres, including the emperor himself, are present to watch the burning, which takes place in front of the Domus Aurea .
Nero's Torches, Henryk Siemiradzki. Tacitus describes Nero extensively torturing and executing Christians after the fire of AD 64. [75] Suetonius also mentions Nero punishing Christians, though he does so because they are "given to a new and mischievous superstition" and does not connect it with the fire. [159]
A. N. Sherwin-White records that serious discussion of the reasons for Roman persecution of Christians began in 1890 when it produced "20 years of controversy" and three main opinions: first, there was the theory held by most French and Belgian scholars that "there was a general enactment, precisely formulated and valid for the whole empire, which forbade the practice of the Christian religion.
The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer, by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1883) Nero's Torches, by Henryk Siemiradzki (1876). According to Tacitus, Nero used Christians as human torches The Victory of Faith, by Saint George Hare, depicts two Christians in the eve of their damnatio ad bestias
Statue of Nero by Claudio Valenti, Anzio, Italy (2010) Salvador Dalí's "Dematerialization Near the Nose of Nero" (1949) Henryk Siemiradzki's "A Christian Dirce" (1897) "Nero's Torches" depicts Christians being martyred on Nero's orders (1876) John William Waterhouse's "The Remorse of Nero After the Murder of His Mother" (1878)
Nero's Torches, by Henryk Siemiradzki (1876) Part of the page from the 11th century codex containing Annales, xv. 44.3–8, the passage with the reference to Christians (Florence, Laurentian Library, Plut. 68.2, f. 38r)
Nero's Torches, by Henryk Siemiradzki (1876). According to Tacitus, Nero used Christians as human torches. Valerian singled out Christianity as a particularly self-interested and subversive foreign cult, outlawed its assemblies and urged Christians to sacrifice to Rome's traditional gods.
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 ...