Like
'The Torso of Adèle', 'The Kneeling Fauness', 'The Crouching Woman', 'The
Falling Man' and 'The Head of Sorrow', the body of 'The Martyr',
appearing in the tympanum of 'The
Gates of Hell', hovering over the 'Kneeling fauness', developed into a
multi-purpose module to signify 'lost souls' in many different
constellations. We recognize her figure with the typically outstretched
arms and reclining head with minor variations in 'Avarice and Lust'
and 'The Fall of Icarus' including
variations like 'The Broken Lily' and 'The
Fall of Illusion, Sister of Icarus'. We also find 'The Martyr' back in 'Pygmalion
and Galatea', 'Orpheus and the
Furies' and in a pediment for the Villa La Sapinère in Evian.
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