Room 8
The female martyr-saints are not simply victims but triumphant heroines, assertive in extremis. The third in our list of female martyrs was not Christian but pagan, and was canonised belatedly by the Romantic movement: this was Sappho of Lesbos. Sappho received poetic tributes from Leopardi and Baudelaire, while two influential prose writers, the critic Sainte-Beuve and the Hellenist Émile Deschanel, saw her as the embodiment of a literary ideal: that of poetry as confession, the voice of passion, forever true and natural.
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- Autor:
- Caspar de Crayer
- Título:
- The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine, c. 1622
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- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas, 242 x 188 cm
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- Úbicacion:
- Musée de Grenoble
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- Autor:
- John William Waterhouse
- Título:
- Saint Eulalia, 1885
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- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas, 188.6 x 117.5 cm
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- Úbicacion:
- Tate, London: Presented by Sir Henry Tate 1894, Inv. no.: N01542
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- Autor:
- Antoine-Jean Gros
- Título:
- Sappho, 1801
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- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas, 118 x 95 cm
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- Úbicacion:
- Musée Baron Gérard-Bayeux Collection, Inv. no.: P0023
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