John Singer Sargent: The Triumph of Religion
The Triumph of Religion is an ambitious mural cycle painted by renowned artist John Singer Sargent at the Boston Public Library.
Spanning 84 feet long and located in the third-floor Sargent Hall, the masterpiece took 29 years to complete (1890-1919) and illustrates the evolution of religious history from pagan gods to Christianity
Pagan Heads
John Singer Sargent, created around 1890–1895.
Astarte
John Singer Sargent, created around 1890–1895.
John Singer Sargent’s epic mural cycle, the Triumph of Religion, adorns the walls of the third floor of the McKim Building at the Boston Public Library. The enormously ambitious project involved much preparation on the part of Sargent, who executed the paintings in his London studio and accompanied them to Boston to oversee their installation. These newly digitized sketches for the mural were a vital part of the preparatory work.
Sargent had begun conceiving of the murals in 1890, brought into the project by architect Charles Follen McKim. In a series of installations from 1895 to 1919, Sargent produced nineteen panels depicting key moments in the history of early Egyptian and Assyrian belief system, Judaism, and Christianity.
