Hypatia outlet original watercolou

Original watercolour representing Hypatia.

The outlet painting measures 23x30,5 cm and it is unframed.

Watercolour on cold-pressed 300 g Canson 100% cotton paper.

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Hypatia
Hypatia was a mathematician, an astronomer, and a philosopher who lived in a very turbulent era in Alexandria's history.
She was, in her time, the world's leading mathematician and astronomer. She was also a popular teacher and lecturer on philosophical topics of a less-specialist nature, attracting many loyal students and large audiences. Her philosophy was Neoplatonist and was thus seen as “pagan” at a time of bitter religious conflict between Christians (both orthodox and “heretical”), Jews, and pagans. Her Neoplatonism was concerned with the approach to the One, an underlying reality partially accessible via the human power of abstraction from the Platonic forms, themselves abstractions from the world of everyday reality.
An early manifestation of the religious divide of the time was the razing of the Serapeum, the temple of the Greco-Egyptian god Serapis, by Theophilus, Alexandria's bishop. This event was perhaps the final end of the great Library of Alexandria, since the Serapeum may have contained some of the Library's books. Theophilus, however, was friendly with Synesius, an ardent admirer and pupil of Hypatia, so she was not herself affected by this development but was permitted to pursue her intellectual endeavours unimpeded. With the deaths of Synesius and Theophilus and the accession of Cyril to the bishopric of Alexandria, however, this climate of tolerance lapsed, and shortly afterward Hypatia became the victim of a particularly brutal murder at the hands of a gang of Christian zealots. Hypatia remains a powerful feminist symbol and a figure of affirmation for intellectual endeavour in the face of ignorant prejudice.