Two Acolytes Censing, Pentecost by Simeon Solomon (1840-1905) (original) (raw)

Two Acolytes Censing, Pentecost

Simeon Solomon (1840-1905)

1863

Watercolor

dimensions: 40.2 x 35 cm.

Lionel Lambourne points out that the painter's "deep interest in ritualistic subjects led him to depict such difering themes as a rabbi carrying the Scrolls of the law, a Roman Catholic priest elevating the host and a Greek Orthodox acolyte holding a censer and a sprig of myrtle blosson" (13).

Discussions and Discusison Questions

• A Masterpiece without Message

References

The Emergence of Jewish Artists in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Exhibition Catalogue. Ed. Susan Tumarkin Goodman. London: Merrell; New York: Jewish Museum, 2001.

Lambourne, Lionel. The Aesthetic Movement. London: Phaidon, 1996.

Morgan, Hilary, and Peter Nahum. Burne-Jones, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Their Century. London: Peter Nahum, 1989. Catalogue number 131.

Last modified 29 October 2006