"Leonidas"
By
Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard (1780-1850)
A highly symbolical painting by French painter Alexandre Evariste Fragonard (more info about him here ).
At the cenotaph of King Leonidas of Sparta at Thermopylae, a Greek warrior (dressing as the classic 1821 Greeks revolutionaries who fought against the Turks) preparing his arms. A spear, a bow and the sword. At the same time his layed his sleeping child upon the cenotaph.
Three ages in one painting:
The past, the present , the future.
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