• The monumental composition shows a scene in a Roman amphitheatre, where Emperor Nero, his court, and spectators, are watching the corpse of a girl, tortured...
  • Henryk Siemiradzki. ... After they defeated the united Rus'-Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Arcadiopolis and recaptured Pereyaslavets, Svyatoslav was forced to...
  • Henryk Siemiradzki Polish Academic Painter, 1843-1902 Henryk Siemiradzki - Beauty and Love Henryk Siemiradzki - Two Figures by a Statue of Sphinx...
  • Preparations | Frans Verhas In the Garden Colonna in Rome | Ludwig von Hagn The New Bracelet | Henryk Siemiradzki The Unseen Suitor | Eugene de Blaas.
    • Henryk Siemiradzki (1843–1902)
    • Warriors in the Battle of Silistria/ The Rape of the Sabine Women, c. 1867
  • In the 1880s and 1890s, subjects from history or everyday scenes of life in ancient Greece and Rome prevail in the artist’s work.
  • 356 BC Birth of Alexander The Great. 343 BC Aristotle arrives in Macedonia as Alexander's tutor. 338 BC Philip victorious at battle of Chaeronea.
  • Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki was a Polish painter based in Rome, best remembered for his monumental academic art.
  • But not Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902). He followed the established canons of academic art, and was extraordinarily successful at it.