Angel of Evil

Angel of EvilA black and white photograph of the statue L'ange du mal (Angle of Evil), by Joseph Geefs. The sculpture was commissioned by St. Paul's Cathedral in Lige, and depicts Lucifer after the fall. However, it was rejected for "unhealthy beauty", and the cathedral instead opted for Le gnie du mal, sculpted by Joseph's brother. Part of the Light & Shadow collection.

A print of Walter Crane's Bellerophon Fighting the Chimera — one of the plates Crane produced for Nathaniel Hawthorne's A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys

the warm reds

Michelangelo is recorded as having drawn from it

the Diadumenos is its poetic companion

Severus co-ruled with his two sons

in Homer's Odyssey

the open arcs between the bodies — all of it pointed toward the Baroque movement Bernini would inherit half a century later

which remained mortal

already present in Homer's Iliad

carved when the artist was just 23 and now housed at the Galleria Borghese in Rome

and the arch was originally dedicated to all three

the modest Venus