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<p>Challenged by the artistic excellence and popular success of his early work, <italic>A Huguenot, on St Bartholomew’s Day, Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by Wearing the Roman Catholic Badge</italic>, the Pre-Raphaelite painter, John Everett Millais turned to the same theme once more. <italic>Mercy: St Bartholomew’s Day, 1572</italic>, however, failed to meet expectations. The essay attempts to reveal certain reasons for the vast difference in the reception of the two pictures and offers a close study of the scenes and characters depicted in them as well as of the social, religious, and cultural contexts of the historical periods the pictures were produced in. (ÉP)</p>
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Challenged by the artistic excellence and popular success of his early work, A Huguenot, on St Bartholomew’s Day, Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by Wearing the Roman Catholic Badge, the Pre-Raphaelite painter, John Everett Millais turned to the same theme once more. Mercy: St Bartholomew’s Day, 1572, however, failed to meet expectations. The essay attempts to reveal certain reasons for the vast difference in the reception of the two pictures and offers a close study of the scenes and characters depicted in them as well as of the social, religious, and cultural contexts of the historical periods the pictures were produced in. (ÉP)

John Everett Millais’s Huguenot Pictures

Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies

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Challenged by the artistic excellence and popular success of his early work, A Huguenot, on St Bartholomew’s Day, Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by...

John Everett Millais’s Huguenot Pictures

Published Online: Nov 14, 2023

Page range: 420 - 429

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30608/hjeas/2023/29/2/11

Keywords
Millais, Huguenots, St. Bartholomew’s Day, Meyerbeer, Papal Aggression, Protestantism

© 2023 Éva Péteri, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

John Everett Millais’s Huguenot Pictures

Published Online: Nov 14, 2023

Page range: 420 - 429

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30608/hjeas/2023/29/2/11

KeywordsMillais, Huguenots, St. Bartholomew’s Day, Meyerbeer, Papal Aggression, Protestantism

© 2023 Éva Péteri, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Millais, Huguenots, St. Bartholomew’s Day, Meyerbeer, Papal Aggression, Protestantism