Martyr
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
A martyr (Greek: μάρτυς, mártys, "witness"; stem μάρτυρ-, mártyr-) is somebody who suffers persecution and death for advocating, refusing to renounce, and/or refusing to advocate a belief or cause, usually a religious one.
[edit]
Literature
- Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1563), by John Foxe
- Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1591) by Antonio Gallonio
- Martyrs Mirror (1660), by Thieleman J. van Braght, with 104 copper etchings by Jan Luyken
[edit]
Art
- Jan Luyken's copper engravings
- The Death of St Agnes (1635), an oil on canvas by Francesco Cairo
- The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer (1883), a painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme
[edit]
See also
- Ad leones
- Acts of the Martyrs
- Christian martyrs
- Martyr complex
- Martyrs Mirror
- Martyrology
- Perpetua and Felicity
- Religious persecution
- Religious views on suicide
- Ten thousand martyrs
- Saint Agnes stab bed (1637) by Francesco Cairo
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Martyr" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
