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Saint Eulalia (Waterhouse painting)

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choice of configuration – situating the corpse across the front and leaving so much of the central canvas unoccupied – was risky but it worked: by placing all the background figures in the distance, he concentrated the viewer's gaze on the naked body. The nudity was also groundbreaking for Waterhouse – and something that could have laid him open to criticism – but his sensitive handling of the subject, the youth of the saint, and the historical context of the painting allowed him to escape the critics' pens.
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A very daring composition, this is one of Waterhouse's most unusual, and consequently most striking, oil paintings. The corpse is dramatically foreshortened, and the snow contrasts with that of Eulalia's naked flesh – the 12-year-old girl seems singularly out of place for a Waterhouse picture. His
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According to legend, the snow was believed to have been sent by God as a shroud to cover the saint's nakedness; the dove, seen flying upwards near the crowd of mourners, is indicative of Eulalia's soul rising to Heaven, having flown out of her mouth.
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A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids
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188.6 cm Ă— 117.5 cm (74.3 in Ă— 46.3 in)
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Quoted by Waterhouse in the exhibition catalogue (see
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I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott
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Saint Eulalia

John William Waterhouse
Tate Britain
oil painting
Pre-Raphaelite
John William Waterhouse
Eulalia of MĂ©rida
Tate Britain
List of paintings by John William Waterhouse
johnwaterhouse.com
Saint Eulalia of MĂ©rida
Martyrs Mirror excerpt
Tate's entry

"Waterhouse: The modern Pre-Raphaelite, at the Royal Academy – review"
"Pre-Raphaelite art: the paintings that obsessed the Victorians [print version: Sex and death: The paintings that obsessed the Victorians]"
The Daily Telegraph
"Pre-Raphaelites for a new generation: Letters, 17 June: Pre-Raphaelite revival"
St Eulalia at Tate
St Eulalia
John William Waterhouse.net
John William Waterhouse (The Art and Life of JW Waterhouse)
John William Waterhouse (Comprehensive Painting Gallery)
John William Waterhouse Style and Technique
Waterhouse at Tate Britain
Ten Dreams Galleries
John William Waterhouse in the "History of Art"
Butler's Lives of the Saints – Saint Eulalia of Mérida
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