{"id":1177,"date":"2006-12-21T02:26:50","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T02:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2008-07-17T02:27:29","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T01:27:29","slug":"angels-4-fallen-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/12\/21\/angels-4-fallen-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels 4: Fallen angels"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Treasures of Satan by Jean Delville (1894).<\/em><\/p>\n

Some more favourite paintings today. Jean Delville produced a splendidly strange portrayal of Satan as an undersea monarch lording it over a sprawl of intoxicated, naked figures. When Savoy Books decided to put together the definitive version of David Lindsay’s equally strange fantasy novel, A Voyage to Arcturus<\/em><\/a>, I felt this was the only painting adequate to the task of filling out the cover. That was in 2002; a year later Gollancz used the same painting on the cover of their Fantasy Masterworks paperback edition<\/a> of the book. Lindsay’s book has been plagued by bad cover art for years so we managed to raise the bar for future editions. Delville was one of the great painters of the Symbolist<\/a> school, all his work is worth looking at.<\/p>\n

There are numerous representations of Lucifer but Franz Stuck’s is especially striking and apparently caused viewers to cross themselves before it when it was first exhibited.<\/p>\n

Gustave Dor\u00e9’s tumbling figure is from his illustrated edition of Paradise Lost<\/em>, a book full of armour-clad, spiky-winged angels. Some of those wings have even found their way into my work via the miracle of Photoshop.<\/p>\n

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Lucifer by Franz Stuck (1890).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Paradise Lost by Gustave Dor\u00e9 (1866).<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The etching and engraving archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The art of Thomas H\u00e4fner, 1928\u20131985<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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