October 29, 2020

"... this is presumably a caricature of the artist as the devil."

























Noticed, this morning, in the lower right corner of a painting, as I was looking into the authorship of the Book of Revelation. The image appears over the artists signature. Nice feet, tail, wings, armor, and whatever that is on the head.

15 comments:

YoungHegelian said...

I don't think it's Bosch as THE Devil. It's Bosch as A devil or demon.

Michael W. Towns, Sr. said...

Looks like Dr. Fauci.

Lucid-Ideas said...

Hands up, don't excommunicate!

gerry said...

I like the eyeglasses.

It actually is a lot more attractive than Dr. Fauci. I think it likely has more experience as an epidemiologist, too.

RobinGoodfellow said...

Hieronymus Bosch was a freak!

n said...

Did anyone else hear Joe Biden’s point 2 about Harris’s qualifications? In the 60 minutes interview he said, “She’s smart as a devil.” That seems all wrong to me.

Ann Althouse said...

I agree that "a devil" is better.

n said...

Did anyone else hear Joe Biden’s point 2 about Harris’s qualifications? In the 60 minutes interview he said, “She’s smart as a devil.” That seems all wrong to me.

Rosalyn C. said...

The artist is the proverbial time traveling fly on the wall, a la Jeff Goldblum. Nothing new under the sun.

tcrosse said...

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Imp.

Howard said...

The details are in the devil.

traditionalguy said...

The cackle of the Kamala is an amazing sound. Maybe it is a laugh at our being so easy to fool with Dem BS.

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...

Maybe. Or it could be his father-in-law.

Marco the Lab said...

The Devil would be Screwtape senior. Looks more like the nephew Wormwood a JV demon.

wildswan said...

But in his portraits Bosch has a square chin, a flat wide face, and a nose that goes straight down whereas this devil has a pointed chin, a narrow face and a nose like Pinocchio. Perhaps it is a portrait of an enemy artist or a personal enemy put up there on the altar as a minor devil for everyone to comment on.

Bosch portrait
https://www.wikiart.org/en/hieronymus-bosch