03 — ARTWORK
The Burning Glass
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, 37 x 49 cm
- TYPE
- Genre
PALETTE
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- FILE
- 1300 × 933 px · JPEG
COMMENTARY
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The woman in Lancret's painting ignites passionThe events leading up to Good Friday, beginning with Christ's arrest and ending with his burial. Portrayals of the Passion, which focus on the Suffering Christ, include depictions of Judas betraying Christ with a kiss, Peter cutting off Malchus's ear, the crown of thorns, and so on.'s fire in a nasty fusion of innocence and calculation. (The painting is also entitled as Woman Igniting Passion's Fire.)
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@online{wga-r28b280acb92c62,
author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {The Burning Glass by LANCRET, Nicolas},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lancret-nicolas-r713b64cb11cfa4/the-burning-glass-r28b280acb92c62},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
