"Country Idyll", c. 1886, oil on canvas, Lviv Art Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
"Christ in the House of Martha and Mary", 1886, oil on canvas, State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
"Arcadian Afternoon", oil on canvas, 65 x 110 cm, private collection
"The Girl or the Vase?", 1881, oil on canvas, 99 x 155 cm, private collection
"Roman Idyll", ok. 1885-90, oil on canvas, 153 x 91 cm, National Museum, Warsaw
"Song of a Slave-Girl", 1884, oil on canvas, Serpukhov Historical and Art Museum, Serpukhov, Russia
"Dance Amongst Daggers", 1881, oil on canvas, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
"By a Temple (Idyll)", 1881, oil on canvas, Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine
"Orpheus in the Underworld", 1880s, Lviv Art Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
[...] Henryk Siemiradzki, active mainly in Rome, where he enjoyed the international renown of an author of effective, academic scenes from the life of ancient Greece and Rome, including the martyrdom of the first Christians, a fashionable theme, full of cruelty and opulence. His monumental canvas Torches of Nero (Candlesticks of Christianity), donated in a patriotic gesture, became the core of the first national gallery in the Cracow Cloth Halls. [...]
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Artist’s paintings in malarze.com
Artist biography at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Siemiradzki
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