Lucifer in the Giudecca | Filippo Bigioli | 1860 Oskar Freiwirth-Lützow This work not only showcases

This work not only showcases van Oostzanen's skill in portraiture but also provides a glimpse into the role of jesters in the societal and cultural contexts of the time

fantastical

alluding to the inevitability of death and decay

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl’s Souls on the Banks of the Acheron (1898) is a masterful classical vision of the Greek underworld

while the Chimera

Lucifer in the Giudecca | Filippo Bigioli | 1860 Oskar Freiwirth-Lützow This work not only showcasesAbout the artwork: In Filippo Bigiolis Lucifer in the Giudecca the three figures being gnawed by Lucifer are drawn directly from Dantes Inferno, where Satan is described with three mouths eternally chewing the worst traitors in human history. In Dantes vision these three sinners are Judas Iscariot, the apostle who betrayed Christ; Brutus, one of the main conspirators in the assassination of Julius Caesar; and Cassius, who also participated in that