tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post5577014758905218136..comments2023-11-22T01:20:04.055-08:00Comments on Painting History: A National SaintXenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-71824969809427353132013-03-17T03:55:14.784-07:002013-03-17T03:55:14.784-07:00Sorry Hels, as much as I normally appreciate your ...Sorry Hels, as much as I normally appreciate your comments, here you are totally wrong.<br /><br />Though I share your opinion about burning girls at the stake, it's a Catholic painting. And a good Catholic has a strange relation to martyrs and torture. Without exaggeration, I've seen paintings in Roman Catholic churches, compared to which poor Stilkes artwork is something for children. Skinning, boiling, grilling and all alive. Sometimes it looks like the more cruel the death the more important the martyr.Xenophonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-67050637588853073222013-03-14T23:47:26.059-07:002013-03-14T23:47:26.059-07:00I don't suppose there was anything saintly or ...I don't suppose there was anything saintly or uplifting about throwing a young teenage girl onto a bonfire. It must have been dirty, smelly, painful and cruel. <br /><br />So the German Romantics had to make some sense out of this French-English debacle. Where was this painting hung, do we know? Who was the audience?Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.com