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Joan of Arc kneeling before angel, late 19th century. Private collection.

Henryk Siemiradzki

Henryk Siemiradzki Workshop (1843–1903)

Phryne at the Festival of Poseidon in Eleusis, 1889-90

Henryk Siemiradzki [Polish. 1843 - 1902] Conversation by the spring, c.19th century

Henryk Semiradsky (1843-1902), “Following the examples of gods”

Judgement of Paris by Henryk Siemiradzki (1892)

Henryk Siemiradzki / “Nero’s Torches” / 1876 / National Museum, Kraków

Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902), Christian Dirce, 1897, oil on canvas, 263 x 530 cm. National Museum in Warsaw - A Christian Dirce is Siemiradzki’s final large-scale history painting. It shows a re-enactment of a Greek myth performed at the behest of Emperor Nero in which Dirce, the queen of Thebes, is put to death by being tied to the horns of a bull and smashed against rocks. According to the writings of the Roman historian Suetonius, Nero decreed that during the games in the amphitheatre, a beautiful young Christian girl was to suffer the same fate. Read more

Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902), ‘The Temptation of St. Jerome’, 1886

Day date or night date? Following the (example of the) Gods, 1899 (1879), by Henryk Siemiradzki