A muscular slave plunges a knife into the neck of a woman, while another concubine throws herself on to the bed, determined to go up in flames with her master as the Medes approach.
A muscular slave plunges a knife into the neck of a woman, while another concubine throws herself on to the bed, determined to go up in flames with her master as the Medes approach. In a scene inspired by a Byron drama, the titular king watches gloomily from his central red funeral pyre as his most prized possessions, women, and horses are destroyed. The sacrificial suicide of the poem replaced with the orgiastic destruction of the Assyrian empire in, FTP, what painting by Eugene Delacroix?
A muscular slave plunges a knife into the neck of a woman, while another concubine throws herself on to the bed, determined to go up in flames with her master as the Medes approach.
The {Death of Sardanapalus}