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@MythicLore It is interesting, yes! I just looked it up to try to find the reason Delaroche painted it that way, and what I read says that he did it to cast a light upon her face and emphasize her as a Christian martyr. The painting is otherwise rather dark without it.
Beautifully dark. By Yi on Artstation
#ofdarkandmacabre
The surrealist and otherworldly Gothic-style artwork by Yaroslav Gerzhedovich
#FairyTaleTuesday #Art
O dire extremity! O state of living death! What dreadful stillness! All around me is dead; and do I really exist, or am I but a statue? Is this a vision? Are these things real? Alas, I am bewildered!—this deathlike and perpetual silence—
Ann Radcliffe, TRotF
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