Adaptational Attractiveness: In both the Book of Revelation and Paradise Lost, Lucifer is depicted as a giant, seven-headed serpent/dragon.He loses the war and is banned from Heaven, which causes him great pain but doesn't prevent him from declaring himself the ruler of hell. Upset about it he hypocritically deems God a tyrant and convinces other angels to rebel against him. He first wants to rule over both angels and humans alongside God, but he's rebuked because there can only be one God. Ambition Is Evil: Craving for power is Lucifer's Fatal Flaw.Not to be confused with the trope Fallen Angel. To be specific, Cabanel drew from the former's descriptions of Lucifer's internal turmoil and anguished monologues something nonexistent in the latter. It doesn't help that Cabanel's was the first rendition of the Devil made by a pupil such a tricky subject was usually reserved for Academic Art masters only.Ĭabanel got his inspiration for this painting from the 1667 narrative, epic poem Paradise Lost, which itself is a retelling of the Book of Genesis. There are blue-tinted angels in the background.Ĭabanel painted it when he was still a student and nearly gave heart arrest to the art judges of the Salon of Paris (the place Cabanel aspired to exhibit it). ![]() Lucifer also has his arms crossed over the lower half of his face, hands clasped at his left side, and is tensely laying over a patch of rocky soil with both his wings and muscles coiled tightly. ![]() It depicts Lucifer just after he's expulsed from Heaven, so the feelings of shame, anger, and hurt are very fresh on his countenance - most famously, his teary, hateful gaze. Possibly, the oil-on-canvas painting that Alexandre Cabanel is most famous for at least, since the XXth century. Also known as L'Ange Déchu, in its original French name.
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