Meditation

Meditation (Italian: La meditazione) is a pair of oil paintings on canvas by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez, completed in 1850 and 1851. They both depict a personification of Italy as a young, disheveled woman; the 1850 Meditation debuted as A Meditation on the Old and New Testaments, while the 1851 Meditation was also called Meditation: Italy in 1848, making its allegorical relationship to the failed 1848 Italian revolutions explicit. Hayez had previously paid homage to the depiction of Italy as a weeping woman, first shown on the grave of Vittorio Alfieri, in his painting Pietro Rossi.

The majority of critical attention has been placed on the 1851 Meditation, which shows the depiction of Italy as more proud and defiant despite her suffering, with stronger symbolism in favor of the Italian Risorgimento. It has been contrasted with Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, which was a t…

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