The composition is extremely daring: Eulalia's dramatically foreshortened body leads the eye towards a void at the centre of the picture. A group of mourners form a pyramid towards the top of the composition, but the viewer's eye is drawn back down towards the martyred figure by the right-hand soldier's spear, via a zig-zag of ropes, to the young woman's outflung arms. Acc...
Size:
1886 x 1175 mm
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Credit:
Courtesy of Tate Britain (Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported))
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