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Lawrence's departures from portraiture were very rare. In the early 1790s he completed two history pictures: Homer Reciting his Poems, a small picture of the poet in a pastoral setting; and Satan summoning his legions, a giant canvas illustrating lines from John Milton's Paradise Lost. [19]
In the artist Sir Thomas Lawrence's 1797 exhibition at the Royal Academy, an enormous painting of Satan Summoning His Legions, was based upon a giant portrait of the muscular Jackson. [citation needed] Jackson features as a character in Rodney Stone, a Gothic mystery and boxing novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. [citation needed]
Full text; Paradise Lost at ... Thomas Lawrence, Satan summoning his Legions, 1796–1797. ... inspired loosely biographical paintings by both Fuseli [55] and Eugène ...
A man dressed as the Devil at New York City's West Indian Day Parade.. The Devil, (Satan, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Iblis) appears frequently as a character in literature and various other media, beginning in the 6th century when the Council of Constantinople officially recognized Satan as part of their belief system. [1]
The Fallen Angel (French: L'Ange déchu) is a painting by French artist Alexandre Cabanel. It was painted in 1847, when the artist was 24 years old, and depicts the Devil after his fall from Heaven. [1] The painting is at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier. [2]
John Martin, Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council, c.1823–1827 John Martin, Belshazzar's Feast, c.1821 Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council is part of a series of 48 mezzotint engravings that British artist John Martin created between 1823 and 1827 to illustrate a new edition of Milton's Paradise Lost.
Satan and his angels rebelled against God in heaven, and proudly presumed to try their strength with his. And when God, by his almighty power, overcame the strength of Satan, and sent him like lightning from heaven to hell with all his army; Satan still hoped to get the victory by subtlety[.] [ 7 ]