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Preferred term

Vanquished Petroleuse  

Note

  • Specific artist: Ginotti, Giacomo, b.1836-1845, d.1897
  • Specific date: 1880
  • Specific location: Varallo (ITA), Pinacoteca
  • Specific medium: sculpture

Scope note

  • Petroleuses refer to the women of Paris who were accused of burning the city during the battle (Versaillese against the Parisians?) that ended the Commune in 1871. They were said to throw burning petroleum into the cellars and were thus persecuted and killed. Original Italian title : La Petroliera

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  • 295302
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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/HTR-L4TWGM2X-1

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