Faithful Unto Death is an oil on canvas history painting by the British artist Edward Poynter, from 1865. It is held at the Walker Art Gallery, in Liverpool.
Edward John Poynter Faithful Unto Death Google Art Project
Arthur Stockdale Cope Edward Poynter 1911
In 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius, a stratovolcano located in the modern-day region of Campania, Italy, erupted, causing one of the deadliest eruptions in history. Vesuvius violently ejected a cloud of super-h
Faithful unto Death (painting)
…canvas history painting by the British artist Edward Poynter, from 1865. It is held at the Walker Art Gallery, in Liverpool. It shows a scene where the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, a Roman Legionary remains stoically at his post amidst the chaos. Poynter drew inspiration from the excavations at Pompeii which revealed the…
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