A Huguenot on St. Bartholomew's Day (1852)
Oil on canvas 92.71 cm × 64.13 cm.
Pre-Raphaelites
🇬🇧A pair of young lovers; given a dramatic twist because the girl, who is Catholic, is attempting to get her beloved, who is a Protestant, to wear the white armband declaring allegiance to Roman Catholicism.
The young man firmly pulls off the armband at the same time that he gently embraces his lover, and stares into her pleading eyes. The incident refers to the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre on August 24, 1572, when around 3,000 French Protestants (Huguenots) were murdered in Paris, with around 20,000 massacred across the rest of France.
A small number of Protestants escaped from the city through subterfuge by wearing white armbands.
🇪🇸Una pareja de jóvenes amantes; se le da un giro dramático porque la jóven, que es católica, está intentando que su amado, que es protestante, use el brazalete blanco declarando lealtad al catolicismo romano .
El joven se quita firmemente el brazalete al mismo tiempo que abraza suavemente a su amante y la mira a los ojos suplicantes.
El incidente se refiere a la masacre del día de San Bartolomé el 24 de agosto de 1572, cuando alrededor de 3.000 protestantes franceses ( hugonotes ) fueron asesinados en París, con alrededor de 20.000 masacrados en el resto de Francia.
Un pequeño número de protestantes escapó de la ciudad a través del subterfugio con brazaletes blancos.
📍National Art Library, London, England.
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