Louis Hector Leroux
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Louis Hector Leroux was a French painter in the academic style, affiliated by critics with the Néo-Grecs movement in art. He specialized in meticulously researched paintings of ancient Rome, especiall
Hector Leroux, c. 1875
La Résurrection de Lazare, Leroux's second-place entry to the Prix de Rome in 1857; Musée d’Orsay
Leroux painted by Henner in Rome, 1861
Vestale Endormie (1880), private collection
Sibyl
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The sibyls were prophetesses or oracles in Ancient Greece.
Louis Hector Leroux
…by the ancient world, almost invariably centered on women, including paintings of Sappho, Messalina, the Lesbia of Catullus, the mythical Danaïdes, a Sibyl, and women at worship at sacred shrines, usually in groups, but in one case a lone supplicant seeking vengeance on a faithless lover or a rival by…
Statue in the Temple of Zeus at Aizanoi, believed to depict a sibyl
Michelangelo's Delphic Sibyl, Sistine Chapel ceiling
Michelangelo's Libyan Sibyl, Sistine Chapel ceiling
Sibyl by Francesco Ubertini, c. 1525