Sennacherib's Army Is Destroyed
- Artist
- Gustave Dore
- Style
- Romanticism
- Genre
- Religious painting
"Sennacherib's Army Is Destroyed" is a dramatic Religious painting that vividly depicts the biblical moment when the Assyrian king Sennacherib's defeated army is miraculously destroyed by divine intervention. The painting captures the intense emotion and chaos characteristic of Romanticism, emphasizing divine power and human vulnerability. The artist employs dynamic composition and vivid contrasts to evoke awe and despair, aligning with Romantic ideals of emphasizing emotion and the sublime. Overall, it powerfully visualizes the religious theme of divine protection and judgement, making it both a historical and spiritual masterpiece.
Related artworks
- Christ carried to the Tomb by Rogier van der Weyden
- Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife Giovanna Cenami (The Arnolfini Marriage) (detail) by Jan van Eyck
- The River Vorya at Abramtsevo by Konstantin Korovin
- My bicycle by Georges Braque
- Ivan Mikhailovich Yakovlev by Vladimir Borovikovsky
- Redheaded woman wearing a pendant by Amedeo Modigliani
- Woodbury Langdon by John Singleton Copley
- Fallen Tree by Ivan Shishkin
- Study for Augusta Reading to Her Daughter by Mary Cassatt
- At the Masquerade (detail) by Charles Hermans