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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.
John Martin, Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council, c. 1823–1827 John Martin, Pandemonium, 1841. Pandæmonium (or Pandemonium in some versions of English) is the capital of Hell in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost. [1] [2]
The Biblical episode depicted in the painting – Belshazzar's Feast – is described in the Book of Daniel chapter 5. The Babylonian king Belshazzar is said to have defiled the sacred vessels of the enslaved Israelites by using them to serve wine at a banquet.
Some of the more notable prints include Pandæmonium and Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council, remarkable for the science fiction element visible in the depicted architecture, and arguably his most dramatic composition Bridge over Chaos. Prowett issued 4 separate editions of the engravings in monthly instalments, the first appearing on 20 ...
Martin was (unusually) commissioned to paint the subject by Richard Greville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, who paid 800 guineas.The painting is a monumental canvas 5 feet 3 inches (1.6 m) by 8 feet 2 inches (2.5 m) which depicts a view from Stabiae across the Bay of Naples towards the doomed cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79.
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The After School Satan Club promotes self-directed education by supporting the intellectual and creative interests of students The Sober Faction is a peer support group that offers a Satanic ...
The Last Judgement is a triptych of oil paintings by the British artist John Martin, created in 1851–1853.The work comprises three separate paintings on a theme of the end of the world, inspired by the Book of Revelation.