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Martyrs

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.

  • The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine
    Autor:
    Caspar de Crayer
    Título:
    The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine, c. 1622
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    Oil on canvas, 242 x 188 cm
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    Úbicacion:
    Musée de Grenoble
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  • Saint Eulalia
    Autor:
    John William Waterhouse
    Título:
    Saint Eulalia, 1885
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    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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  • Sappho
    Autor:
    Antoine-Jean Gros
    Título:
    Sappho, 1801
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    Oil on canvas, 118 x 95 cm
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    Úbicacion:
    Musée Baron Gérard-Bayeux Collection, Inv. no.: P0023
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