welcometocrystallake: Lucifer, from the Divine Comedy (c. 1596 - c. 1605) Based on the work of another great poet, Dante, this engraving shows a very different conception of Satan from Milton’s. Monstrous and hideous, he is gigantic but immobilized, at the center of the earth, embedded to the waist in eternal ice.

welcometocrystallake:

Lucifer, from the Divine Comedy (c. 1596 - c. 1605)

Based on the work of another great poet, Dante, this engraving shows a very different conception of Satan from Milton’s. Monstrous and hideous, he is gigantic but immobilized, at the center of the earth, embedded to the waist in eternal ice.

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