Satan summoning his Legions,
Created: 1796-1797
By: Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA (1769 - 1830)
Royal Academy Collection: Art
"Thomas Lawrence’s grandest history painting attracted strong reactions. It is dominated by a muscular male figure, naked apart from his sword, helmet and some carefully placed drapery."
"He is Satan, the rebel angel, who has been sent to Hell. Standing by a lake of fire, he summons his followers."
The subject is Milton's ‘Paradise Lost’, Book I, line 330, 'Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen'."
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Satan summoning his Legions, Created: 1796-1797 By: Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA (1769 - 1830)
Royal Academy Collection: Art
"Thomas Lawrence’s grandest history painting attracted strong reactions. It is dominated by a muscular male figure, naked apart from his sword, helmet and some carefully placed drapery."
"He is Satan, the rebel angel, who has been sent to Hell. Standing by a lake of fire, he summons his followers."
The subject is Milton's ‘Paradise Lost’, Book I, line 330, 'Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen'."