Lucifer - Richard Holst

Lucifer - Richard HolstA print of Richard Roland Holst's Lucifer the Dutch Symbolist's rendering of the fallen angel of Christian tradition, drawn in the flattened, heraldic idiom that ran through Holst's generation of Amsterdam printmakers around 1900. Lucifer means "light bringer" in Latin originally the name of the morning star, the planet Venus at dawn. The figure of Lucifer as fallen angel, the first of God's creations to rebel and to be cast down, is a later medieval

and kept the other Olympians in tense

Its hide was invulnerable to any weapon — arrows bounced off it

treated in the flattened

an architect

Antique intaglio illustration of the Greek goddess Aphrodite taking the ‘Arrow of Love’ from her son

stripped to a single taut pose

Their cult was particularly strong at Sparta and

When Achilles withdrew from the fighting in the ninth year of the Trojan War

A Giclée Fine Art print on premium matte paper

from the violent act that opens Hesiod's Theogony: Cronus castrates his father Uranus and flings the severed flesh into the sea

the kind of ruin that has stood in Roman museum courtyards

the greatest of the Greek warriors at Troy and the central figure of Homer's Iliad