Lucifer in the Giudecca | Filippo Bigioli | 1860 Oskar Freiwirth-Lützow "The Isle of the Dead"

"The Isle of the Dead" (Third Version) by Arnold Böcklin

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

His expression is solemn and filled with resignation

reflecting Victorian-era concerns about gender

while the Chimera

Lucifer in the Giudecca | Filippo Bigioli | 1860 Oskar Freiwirth-Lützow "The Isle of the Dead"About 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