Truth Coming Out of Her Well is a painting by Jean-Leon Gerome which was uploaded on August 22nd, 2021.
Truth Coming Out of Her Well
Jean-Léon Gérôme : Truth Coming Out of Her Well (1896)
Beginning in the mid-1890s, in the last decade of his life, Gérôme made at least... more
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Truth Coming Out of Her Well
Artist
Jean-Leon Gerome
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
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Jean-Léon Gérôme : Truth Coming Out of Her Well (1896)
Beginning in the mid-1890s, in the last decade of his life, Gérôme made at least four paintings personifying Truth as a nude woman, either thrown into, at the bottom of, or emerging from a well. The imagery arises from a translation of an aphorism of the philosopher Democritus, "Of truth we know nothing, for truth is in a well". (Greek ἐτεῇ δὲ οὐδὲν ἴδμεν: ἐν βυθῷ γὰρ ἡ ἀλήθεια, eteêi dè oudèn ídmen: en buthô gàr hē alḗtheia, [literally] "in reality we know nothing; for the truth is in an abyss".) The nudity of the model may arise from the expression "la vérité nue, "the naked truth."
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August 22nd, 2021
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