Fatarella

Pierre Daura (Pedro Francisco Daura y Garcia)

1929

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Two large royal figures lay in a tomb under a decorative window. A man in a suit crawls out of a casket from beneath the royal figures.
Charbonnages du Limbourg, Frans Masereel, woodcut
This painting depicts an episode from the legend of the Four Crowned Martyrs who were Christian sculptors working for the Roman Emperor Diocletian. When the sculptors refused to carve a statue of a pagan god, Diocletian ordered that the sculptors be sealed alive in lead coffins and thrown into a river. On the left, Diocletian, identified by his crown, directs a group of men in the center to lift a coffin.
A nude female sits on the bank of a body of water. She leans slightly on a rock and turns her head to the viewer. A quiver of arrows is seen on the left.