Gallery of the Masters 
Henryk Siemiradzki
1843-1902 Poland/Neo Classicism
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Brief Biography-Henryk Siemiradzki was born in Pieczeniegi, close to Kharkiv, in 1834. After graduating from Kharkiv University, the Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts admitted him in 1864. He spent time in Munich before finally settling in Rome in 1872. Siemiradzki won a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1878 and received the Legion of Honour while later becoming a correspondent of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Nero’s Torches, with which he became an academician and made a professor, is one of his most striking paintings. It is in the National Museum in Kraków. He received numerous awards throughout his career, one being the Commander of the Order of Saint Maurice and Lazarus, bestowed by the King of Italy. |
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Christ
and Sinner
Christian
Dirce
Nero's
Torches
A Dangerous
Game
Alexander the Great
and Physician Philip
Christ and
Samaritan Woman
Christ with Martha
and Maria
Curtain for the
Juliusz Slowacki-
Curtain of the Grand
Theatre in Lviv
Dance Amongst
Daggers
Following
the Gods
Socrates finds his
Student Alcviad
Funeral of
Russian Noble
Gypsy
Woman
Phryne at the
Poseidonia-
Portrait of
a Woman-Romana
Corsairs
Rest
Nymph
Talisman
Roman
Idyll
Roman Orgy of
Brilliant Times
Slave's
Song
Shepherd-Who Plays
the Flute
Rome
Hamlet
At
the Pond
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Funeral
Feast
Rural
Idyll
Roman Orgy
at Tiberius
