Roman Košťál - Old Woman

The canvas depicts a frail old grandmother bathed in a cone of light, while shadows reveal a pair of lovers—a distant memory from her youth. The artist symbolically stains the lovers with charcoal, representing the sins of the flesh, while the elderly woman is enveloped in a white glow signifying purity and the absolution she will receive in the afterlife, for death washes away all transgressions.