#legéniedumal

[brandeewine]

.Playing along with @ssavaart and his #studyingthemasters series. #legéniedumal #lucifer #guillaumegeefs #sculpture #drawing #indexcardart https://www.instagram.com/p/CZAmsv4vTFi/?utm_medium=tumblr

[midasismyking24k]

Le génie du mal – Guillaume Geefs Le génie du mal (installed 1848) or The Genius of Evilor the genie of evil or the spirit 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. Francophone art historians most often refer to the figure as an ange déchu, a “fallen angel”. 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, L’ange du mal, which was removed from the cathedral because of its distracting allure and “unhealthy beauty”. In 1837, Guillaume Geefs was put in charge of designing the elaborate pulpit for St. Paul’s, the theme of which was “the Triumph of Religion over the Genius of Evil”. Geefs had come to prominence creating monumental and public sculptures in honor of political figures, expressing and capitalizing on the nationalist spirit that followed Belgian independence in 1830. Techniques of realism coupled with Neoclassical restraint discipline any tendency toward Romantic heroism in these works, but Romanticism was to express itself more strongly in the Lucifer project. #Lucifer #Satan #GuilluameGeefs #JosephGeefs #Legéniedumal #stpaulscathedral #SaintPaulsCathedral #Belgium #ParadiseLost #JohnMilton https://www.instagram.com/p/B9z5VknAJLe/?igshid=cp1bu4rw6wbx

[paulasuchart]

#legéniedumal really captured my attention #theluciferofliège #scuplture #guillamegeefs #stpaulscathedral https://www.instagram.com/p/CDJjkqVjj3k/?igshid=t460mohbapit

[weareonlyspiritswhotrytobealive]

"Lo 'mperator del doloroso regno Da mezzo 'l petto uscia fuor de la ghiaccia." (Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto XXXIV) "Il genio del male/Le Génie du mal", Lucifer. (1848 by Guillaume Geefs) Location: 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. ♡ #legéniedumal #lucifer #sculpture #devil #goth #gothic #macabre #demon #bat #guillaumegeefs #stpaulscathedral #evil