Title

Historical Scene, 1650. Creator: Peter Lely.

Caption

Historical Scene, 1650. Trial by Fire Saint Cunigunde of Luxembourg was accused of being unfaithful to her husband, the Holy Roman Emperor. To prove her innocence, she stood or walked barefoot on red-hot metal. In Lely’s painting a young woman is standing on red-hot coals before an Oriental ruler, among the spectators are men wearing turbans and little Moorish boys, while in the background there is a statue of Justice.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM26A29_260

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

51.5Mo (3.0Mo) / 42.0cm x 30.8cm / 4960 x 3632 (300dpi)

Keywords

Europe animal female women woman people male boy boys child children man men walking historical religious arts painting religion Moorish body bodies dog dogs figure figures statue statues sculpture art guy continent British museum Netherlands Dutch feet foot European headdress color royal scene Christian Christianity turban turbans saint Santa Baroque depiction location century empire justice trial Britain barefoot royalty concept santo bare feet headgear 17th century head-dress head dress oil Painting Colour Empress Hermitage Museum culture history historic seventeenth century Holy Roman Empire Oil on canvas Orientalism orientalist State Hermitage Museum TGN the body Holy Roman Empress oil young women young woman Empress Peter Lely Sir Peter Lely Baroque Era Lely Peter Hispano-Arabic 1650 History painting Empress Kunigunde Cunigunde of Luxembourg Empress Cunigunde Empress Cunigunda Kunigunde Heritage Art Lilly Peter Pieter van der Faes Lilly Sir Peter Lilly Sir Peter van der Faes Sir Peter van der Faes Lilly Sr P Lely Sir Peter Lilly Peter Lilly Low Countries trial by fire Canvas 1650s Saint Cunigunde of Luxembourg Saint Cunigunde