Word: rochegross
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Last week, in Manhattan, John S. Sumner, head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, saw a picture in a window which aroused his righteous rage. The picture was the celebrated Andromache at the Siege of Troy, by Antoine Georges Marie Rochegross. Grotesque and terrible, it depicts Hector's wife at the moment when she is being dragged away from Troy for the pleasure of Neoptolemus, son of Achilles; her little son, Axtynax, is being yanked away from his mother by a brutal soldiery. The nude body of a nymph lies prostrate in the foreground. When...
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