"Biblia Sacra (Susannae pulchritudo)" Surrealist Lithograph by Salvador Dali

Salvador Dalí, a leading figure of the surrealist movement, deeply marked twentieth-century art with his audacity and singularity. Among his works is "Susannae Pulchritudo," a lithograph with remarkable mystical force, signed and dated 1965 in the right margin. It should be noted that "Pulchritude" is derived from the Latin adjective "pulcher," meaning "beautiful." The translation of the title could be "The Very Beautiful Suzanne." The work tells the story of Suzanne, a young woman observed while bathing, who rejects the dishonest proposals of two old men. In revenge, they accuse her of adultery and sentence her to death, but the prophet Daniel, still a teenager, intervenes and proves her innocence. This morally edifying story has dramatically succeeded in patristic literature and Christian iconography. Suzanne is seen as a symbol of marital virtue, refusing to yield her body to the desires of these lustful old men. Dalí depicts her nude, from behind, standing with a long white sheet c