Martyrdom Of St. Levien Analysis

Peter Paul Rubens, in 1633, created a painting called “The Martyrdom of St. Levien.” An oil on canvas that is 455 x 347 cm in length. Rubens depicts st. Levien being grabbed onto by his beard, his aggressor is holding the saints tongue that was purposefully torn out with a type of pliers, being held above a pair of chomping teeth from a dog. St. Levien is being held down by two men, one holding his beard and the other holding a bloody knife within his teeth with a look of anguish towards the Saint. Similarly based on the writings of prints from “Meditations on the Gospel” which is a book of devotionals by the Jesuit Hieronymus Nadal describes cruelty of their tortures. Ruben places St. Levien in the similar fashion of torture.
The story to this painting is that St. Levien is preaching the word to non-believers, trying to convert them, was interrupted and attacked by non-believing robbers who decided to punish St. Levien for preaching for something they believe doesn’t exist. They tore out his tongue and gave it to the dogs. God
He was a publisher so his role was important to help rally the people for the revolution. A royalist named Charlotte Coreday, believed in a monarchy and thought of Marat as her enemy, blaming him for the September massacre (September massacre was the mass killing of prisoners, due to the belief that prisoners would join in the fight with the monarchy). Charlotte went to go confront Marat and successfully trick her way in his house. Marat dealt with a skin disease that cause him to spend most of his time in the bathtub. Charlotte made her way into Marat’s bathroom chambers, brutally stabbing him with a knife that is left lying in the bottom left corner of David’s painting. The facts say that Charlotte did not flee the scene of the crime and was tried and executed for the murder of