A Victim of Fanaticism (Ukrainian: Жертва фанатизму) is a painting by Mykola Pymonenko, painted in 1899.
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| Artist | Mykola Pymonenko |
| Year | 1899 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 180 × 224 cm |
| Location | Kharkiv Art Museum |
Background
editPymonenko had read a newspaper account of an attack by members of the Jewish community on a girl who fell in love with a Ukrainian blacksmith and decided to convert to Christianity to marry him. Pymonenko visited the town of Kremenets in Volhynia, where he made many sketches from nature.
Subject
editA young girl in a torn shirt, fleeing from an angry mob, clings to a fence, a cross is visible on her neck. Directly opposite her stands a man shaking his fists, wearing Jewish ritual clothes - in addition to the kippah, he wears a tefillin and a tallit. The rest of the inhabitants of the town are dressed casually. Many of them are armed with sticks, umbrellas and tongs. The girl's parents are somewhat aloof: the mother is crying, turning away from her daughter, and the father has his right hand raised as a sign of the renunciation of his daughter.
Technical details
editThe painting is oil on canvas. It is currently on display at the Kharkiv Art Museum.
References
edit- Yezerskaya, N. A. (1987). Передвижники и национальные художественные школы народов России [The Peredvizhniki and the National Art Schools of the Russian People] (in Russian). Moscow: Fine Art.