• angrystego@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It’s an 18th Century painting by Joshua Reynolds called The Death of Cardinal Beaufort, based on a Shakespearean death scene.

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    One critic described it as “too ludicrous and puerile to escape censure”

    You mean the guys with horns in the Bible?

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    Reynolds was known for the “experimental” way he painted, which involved the addition of unusual materials

    no more detail on this little factoid, but i wonder what unusual materials he might have used to paint a demon

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    And so it begins… and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.