Heliodorus (minister)
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Heliodorus was a minister of Seleucus IV Philopator ca. 175 BC, and is said to have assassinated Seleucus. 2 Maccabees reports that he entered the Temple in Jerusalem in order to take its treasure, but was turned back by three forms of God.
[edit] Heliodorus in the Arts
During the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the episode of the Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple was taken in Roman Catholic apologetics as a symbol of the inviolability of Church property.[1] For some time, it became a popular subject in works of artists, such as:
- Raphael (1512): Vatican, Palazzi Vaticani
- Wouter Crabeth (1566): Gouda (Holland), Sint Janskerk
- Bertholet Flémal (1662), Brussels (Belgium), Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts
- Giuseppe Tortelli (1724): Brescia (Italy), Musei civici di Arte e Storia
- Francesco Solimena (1725): Naples (Italy), Gesù Nuovo
- Giambattista Tiepolo (1727): Verona (Italy), Museo di Castelvecchio
- Serafino Elmo (1734): Muro Leccese (Italy), Annunziata
- Franz Sigrist (1760): Zweifalten (Germany), Klostenkirche
- Eugene Delacroix (1861): Paris (France), Saint Sulpice
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Gabriele Boccaccini, Portraits of Middle Judaism in Scholarship and Arts (Turin: Zamorani, 1992).
