"The Martyr or The Death of Saint Eulalia" is a pivotal work by Belgian-Mexican artist Francis Alÿs, created in 2005. It is currently housed in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
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It sounds like you’re referring to John William Waterhouse’s 1885 painting The Martyrdom of Saint Eulalia, but with a possible confusion about the year "2005" and the word "upd" (update/upgrade). Overview: A Contemporary Reimagining "The Martyr or The
No update can ignore the uncomfortable questions that the original hagiography smoothed over with piety. Eulalia was thirteen. Her defiance, so celebrated by Prudentius, is also the defiance of a child before a violent state apparatus. In a post-Freudian, post-#MeToo world, the eroticization of the young female martyr’s body—her bare flesh, her exposed breasts, her “shame” transcended—reads differently. The hooks and torches become not just instruments of persecution but a theater of patriarchal violence that the Church, for centuries, called beautiful suffering. Her defiance, so celebrated by Prudentius, is also
According to the Peristephanon (Book of Martyrs) by the poet Prudentius, Eulalia ran away from home to the tribunal of Dacian, proclaiming her faith. Enraged, the governor ordered the "martyr" to be tortured. The historical account details brutal hooks tearing her flesh and torches applied to her ribs.
The film draws on the legend of the co-patron saint of Barcelona, who was executed during the Roman persecutions under Emperor Diocletian.
“The Martyrdom (or Death) of Saint Eulalia — 2005 update [of the catalog entry, image, or restoration data].”