Huguenot. A Huguenot, on Bartholomew's Day, Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by Wearing the Roman Catholic Badge is the full, exhibited title, of a painting by John Everett Millais, and was produced at the height of his Pre-Raphaelite period.
It was accompanied, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1852, with a long quote reading: When the clock of the Palais de Justice shall sound upon the great bell, at daybreak, then each good Catholic must bind a strip of white linen round his arm, and place a fair white cross in his cap., The order of the Duke of Guise. This long title is usually abbreviated to A Huguenot or A Huguenot, on St Bartholomew's Day.
It depicts a pair of young lovers and is given a dramatic twist because the girl, who is Catholic, is attempting to get her beloved, who is a Protestant, to wear the white armband declaring allegiance to Roman Catholicism. The young man firmly pulls off the armband at the same time that he gently embraces his lover, and stares into her pleading eyes.
The incident refers to the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre on August 24, 1572, when around 3,000 French Protestants were murdered in Paris, with around 20,000 massacred across the rest of France. A small number of Protestants escaped from the city through subterfuge by wearing white armbands.
Millais had initially planned simply to depict lovers in a less dire predicament, but supposedl
It was accompanied, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1852, with a long quote reading: When the clock of the Palais de Justice shall sound upon the great bell, at daybreak, then each good Catholic must bind a strip of white linen round his arm, and place a fair white cross in his cap., The order of the Duke of Guise. This long title is usually abbreviated to A Huguenot or A Huguenot, on St Bartholomew's Day.
It depicts a pair of young lovers and is given a dramatic twist because the girl, who is Catholic, is attempting to get her beloved, who is a Protestant, to wear the white armband declaring allegiance to Roman Catholicism. The young man firmly pulls off the armband at the same time that he gently embraces his lover, and stares into her pleading eyes.
The incident refers to the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre on August 24, 1572, when around 3,000 French Protestants were murdered in Paris, with around 20,000 massacred across the rest of France. A small number of Protestants escaped from the city through subterfuge by wearing white armbands.
Millais had initially planned simply to depict lovers in a less dire predicament, but supposedl
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