Artwork Title: All Things Return to the Death, but God's Love Creates Again

All Things Return to the Death, but God's Love Creates Again

Léon Frédéric

It took Frédéric 25 years to complete this work. Biblical stories unfold from left to right. "Humanity invited God's wrath. They were scorched in flames and crushed into rocks, and finally died away. Then a white dove, a messenger of the God, flew in with good tidings. And all humanity revived under the God's love." Many objects depicted in the painting, such as a temple, a Crucifixion, scales that weigh good against evil, symbolize Christianity. In the time it took to complete the painting, World War I broke out, in which Frédéric lost his daughter. In the center of the right half of the painting 5 girls each wear a corolla of flowers on their heads. It is believed that the girl in the center might be his daughter who died. At the left bottom corner he wrote "a nohe bien ainee fille Gabrielle (To my dear daughter, Gabrielle)" together with his signature. It can be assumed that Frederic wanted to depict the folly of wars and... (http://www.ohara.or.jp/200707/eng/1_web/exh/1/022.html)
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