Coyote's kiss

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thewildswan: “ Le génie du mal or The Lucifer of Liège, is a religious sculpture executed in white marble by the Belgian artist Guillaume Geefs. It is located within the elaborate pulpit (French chaire de vérité, “seat of truth”) of St. Paul’s...

thewildswan:

Le génie du mal or The Lucifer of Liège, is a religious sculpture executed in white marble by the Belgian artist Guillaume Geefs.

It is located within the elaborate pulpit (French chaire de vérité, “seat of truth”) of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Liège, and 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. Geefs’ work replaces an earlier sculpture created for the space by his younger brother Joseph Geefs, which was removed from the cathedral because of its distracting allure and “unhealthy beauty.”

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cavetocanvas: “ Henri Regnault, Salomé, 1870 From the Metropolitan Museum of Art: “ Regnault initially represented this Italian model as an African woman, but he later enlarged the canvas at the bottom and right and transformed it into a...

cavetocanvas:

Henri Regnault, Salomé, 1870

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

Regnault initially represented this Italian model as an African woman, but he later enlarged the canvas at the bottom and right and transformed it into a representation of Salomé. She is shown after having danced for her stepfather, Herod Antipas, governor of Judaea. The platter and knife allude to the reward she claimed for her performance: the severed head of John the Baptist. 

Regnault was killed during the Franco-Prussian War, just months after this picture was exhibited to great acclaim at the Salon of 1870. For years, the painting was considered a masterpiece of contemporary art. In 1912, when it was announced that it would be sold from a private collection, Baron Henri de Rothschild initiated a campaign to keep it in France. He was unsuccessful; “Salomé” was presented to the Metropolitan by one of the Museum’s trustees in 1916. - See more at: http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/437384?rpp=20&pg=1&ao=on&ft=Henri+Regnault&pos=1#sthash.TOUGXBt7.dpuf

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