"Night on the Eve of Ivan Kupala", 1880s, oil on canvas, Lviv Art Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
"Naiads", 1880s, oil on canvas, Ryazan Art Museum, Ryazan, Russia
"Portrait of a Roman Woman", 1890, oil on canvas, Regional State Fund of Khanty-Mansiysk, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
"Gypsy", 1877, oil on canvas, Lviv Art Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
"Gypsy Woman", 1877, oil on canvas, 62 x 50 cm, Lviv Art Gallery, Lviv, Ukraine
"Road from Rome to Albano", c. 1873, oil on canvas, Tver Picture Gallery, Tver, Russia
"Roman Orgy in the Time of Caesars", 1872, oil on canvas, State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
"Two Figures by a Statue of Sphinx", study, 1870s, oil on canvas, Regional State Fund of Khanty-Mansiysk, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
[...] 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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