This painting I just posted was based on a popular novel (The Genious of Christianity) by the French writer Chateaubriand. The novel depicts two young Native American lovers from different tribes who fall in love and run away together through the wilderness.
The relevance of the painting is that it was not merely to be meditated upon, but to portray the human emotions surrounding our complex nature, which was one of the main topics during the Enlightement/ Neoclassicism of the Mid-19 Century, particularly in Art.
The Burial of Atala, Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, 1808
3 comments:
that's a very beautiful painting...i love the way the painter shows the emotions....it's very captivating!!!
Praisa
Any significance with the cross in the east there?
The cross you see there was to symbolize sacrifice. During that time, when the Americas were being colonized, particularly the US, the painters reflected the idea of taking the Christianity to the Native Americans, so the cross there also means reflects the concept of Christianity at the time.
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