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This image has been assessed under the valued image criteria and is considered the most valued image on Commons within the scope: Thomas Lawrence, Satan summoning his Legions, 1796–1797 – Royal Academy of Arts. You can see its nomination here.
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]
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New York City. The copper -clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France , was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its ...
Bartholdi sculpting with a miniature of Liberty Enlightening the World, now known as the Statue of Liberty, to his left. Bartholdi served in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 as a squadron leader of the National Guard, and as a liaison officer to Italian General Giuseppe Garibaldi, representing the French government and the Army of the Vosges.
Saint Michael Vanquishing Satan is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael. It shows the archangel Michael standing on top of Satan 's back with his right foot. The painting was commissioned by Pope Leo X and has been located in the Louvre in Paris since 1667.
The painting came into the possession of Steven Spielberg, who donated it to the permanent art collection of the White House in 1994. It was displayed in the Oval Office during the administrations of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, sometimes to the left of the President's desk, above a cabinet or table on which was displayed Frederic Remington's sculpture The Bronco Buster.
Thomas Lawrence, Satan summoning his Legions, 1796–1797. The critic William Empson claimed the poem was morally ambiguous, with Milton's complex characterization of Satan playing a large part in Empson's claim of moral ambiguity.