Lucifer in the Giudecca | Filippo Bigioli | 1860 Oskar Freiwirth-Lützow alluding to the inevitability of

alluding to the inevitability of death and decay

combining meticulous detail with theological weight to evoke fear and moral contemplation

almost defiant boy

winged figure astride a skeletal horse

Lucifer in the Giudecca | Filippo Bigioli | 1860 Oskar Freiwirth-Lützow alluding to the inevitability ofAbout 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