

VARNUAK | via Tumblr op We Heart It
mármol
por Juan Pablo Tavera
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Apollo e Daphne
from Ovid’s Metamorphoses
marble, 1622-25, Galleria Borghese, Roma

Art History Meme ❧ 2/7 Sculptures
The Genius of Evil (1848), St. Paul’s Cathedral, Liège.
The Genius of Evil, known informally in English as Lucifer or The Lucifer of Liège, is a religious sculpture executed in white marble by the Belgian artist Guillaume Geefs. It depicts a classically beautiful man in his physical prime, chained, seated, and nearly nude but for drapery gathered over his thighs, his full length ensconced within a mandorla of bat wings. The magnificently human figure of the iconic rebel who failed might have been expected to elicit a complex or ambivalent response. The suffering face has been read as expressing remorse and despair; a tear slips from the left eye.
Inside York Minster, winter 2010 (own photographs)