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William Hogarth (1697-1764), Tailpiece or the Bathos, 1764, engraving. - Hogarth created The Bathos toward the end of his life. It is considered one of the bleakest artworks of the 18th century because it depicts the Apocalypse without an afterlife. The Angel of Death even collapses in exhaustion after having destroyed the world. In his hand is an execution decree and around him lies a mass of broken objects.

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William Hogarth (1697-1764), The Four Stages of Cruelty (1751). - Each print depicts a different stage in the life of the fictional Tom Nero. The prints were intended as a form of moral instruction; Hogarth was dismayed by the routine acts of cruelty he witnessed on the streets of London. Issued on cheap paper, the prints were destined for the lower classes. The series shows a roughness of execution and a brutality that is untempered by the funny touches common in Hogarth’s other works, but which he felt was necessary to impress his message on the intended audience. Read more - Aesthethos Facebook - Instagram - Shop

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Engraving by Gustave Doré (1832-1883) illustrating Canto XVI of Divine Comedy, Inferno, by Dante Alighieri. - As Dante and Virgil prepare to leave Circle Seven, they are met by the fearsome figure of Geryon, Monster of Fraud. Virgil arranges for Geryon to fly them down to Circle Eight. He climbs onto the monster’s back and instructs Dante to do the same. Then he called out: “Now, Geryon, we are ready: bear well in mind that his is living weight and make your circles wide and your flight steady.” As a small ship slides from a beaching or its pier, backward, backward — so that monster slippedback from the rim. And when he had drawn clear he swung about, and stretching out his tail he worked it like an eel, and with his paws he gathered in the air, while I turned pale.

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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), Medicine, 1900-1907. - The Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings, also known as the Faculty Paintings, were a series of paintings made by Gustav Klimt for the ceiling of the University of Vienna's Great Hall between the years of 1900-1907. In 1894, Klimt was commissioned to paint the ceiling. Upon presenting his paintings, Philosophy, Medicine and Jurisprudence, Klimt came under attack for 'pornography' and 'perverted excess' in the paintings. None of the paintings would go on display in the University. In May 1945, it is contended that all three paintings were destroyed when retreating SS forces set fire to the building they were housed in. However, this is unverified. - Aesthethos Facebook - Instagram - Shop

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