#Du Genie

[sadduckling1]

Fallen angel

[liebelesbe]

was sich liebt, das lesbt sich

Das Lesben ist kein Ponyhof!

[first-class-feral]

smolder

Woof, what a hottie... Brad Dourif's character, Sam Kramer aka David Bell, from Spontaneous Combustion (1990). Aka, little orphan boy.

WIP: I have a bunch more ideas for this, but I'm happy with this stopping point. Probably because I've already drawn all the fun nakey bits

Loosely based on Hot Satan, aka Guillaume Geefs' Le génie du mal: that thing where the church commissioned a guy to sculpt Satan, but he was too hot! So they got his brother to sculpt a second Satan, but it was EVEN HOTTER 😩🔥

I also did this Spontaneous Combustion music video you might enjoy

Some choice quotes from the sculpture's Wikipedia page:

-> Geefs' work replaces an earlier sculpture created for the space by his younger brother Joseph Geefs, L'ange du mal, which was removed from the cathedral because of its distracting allure and "unhealthy beauty".

-> (About the first one) The cathedral administration declared that "this devil is too sublime." The local press intimated that the work was distracting the "pretty penitent girls" who should have been listening to the sermons. ... A languid scarf skims the groin, the hips are bared, and the open thighs form an avenue that leads to shadow ... L'ange du mal has been called "one of the most disturbing works of its time."

-> Whether Guillaume succeeded in removing the "seductive" elements may be a matter of individual perception.

[shriggy-the-rat-king]

Anthony Padilla as a fallen angel, based on 'Le génie du mal' by Guillaume Geefs.

There's that picture of Anthony as an angel from back then, that was my inspiration. I thought "What if he recreated that picture in his current look? Mh, white isn't it tho, I think black would suit him better", and this idea was born. Haha nooo don't do a phoshoot based on this noo hahah that'd be so sillyyy hahah.... unless...? 👉👈

[serpentstole]

One step closer to my altar goals. After many years spent searching for a reproduction of Le Génie du Mal that I was happy with, and some trouble with my initial package, this arrived today.

[heckboi]

The wings in Arlecchino's design have my mind racing miles a minute

[manbeaft]

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

[dooniichez]

Genie as Norea screencaps

[oxygenisachoice]

Drew the statues “L’ange Du Mal” by Joseph Geefs and “Le Génie Du Mal” by Guillaume Geefs because the story behind them is just too funny

[sadduckling1]

A little WIP

[igeniskapitany]

Le génie du mal / The Genius of Evil

Lucifer sculpture by Guillaume Geefs, St. Paul's Cathedral, Liège (1848)

"...at the angel's feet, the dropped "forbidden fruit", an apple with bite marks, along with the broken-off tip of the sceptre, the stellar finial of which marks Lucifer as the Morning Star of classical tradition. The nails are narrow and elongated, like talons. The gesture and the angle of the head suggest that the génie is warding off "divine chastisement". A pair of horns may be intended to further dehumanize the figure, while introducing another note of ambiguity. Horns are animalistic markers of the satanic or demonic, but in a parallel tradition of religious iconography, "horns" represent points of light."

“...Lucifer in bondage, with his right ankle and left wrist chained. In 19th-century reinterpretations of ancient Greek and Christian myths, Lucifer was often cast as a Promethean figure, drawing on a tradition that the fallen angel was chained in Hell just as the Titan had been chained and tortured on the rock by Zeus: "The same Prometheus who is taken as an analogue of the crucified Christ is regarded also as a type of Lucifer," wrote Harold Bloom in remarks on Mary Shelley's 19th-century classic Frankenstein, subtitled The Modern Prometheus. In A.H. Krappe's folkloric typology, Lucifer conforms to a type that includes Prometheus and the Germanic Loki.”

[houndvoice]

Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is; and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.

- W. B. Yeats

Anatomy practice using La genie du mal by Guillaume Geefs (1848).

[michalputo]

New drawing in my sketchbook, inspired by Le génie du mal, classic sculptures by Geefs brothers, Guillaume and Joseph. I think I may paint full oil painting based on this drawing...

[sixbucks]

Awesome true story of L’ange du mal by Joseph Geef and Le genie du mal by Guillaume Geef.

[nocturnalleviathan]

Still my favorite story of an art piece to date.

Also statue looks cool as hell (pun definitely intended)

[straysinfiltrator]

Le génie du mal but make it Leyendecker. Midjourney AI.