St. John Devouring the Book from The Apocalypse
If you hear a voice from Heaven telling you to eat something, you eat it, no questions asked, no Monday morning left-overs. Whether the Angel server your table has burning columns for legs or not. Then leave a tip even if it maketh thy belly bitter.
Text: "And I heard a voice from heaven again speaking to me, and saying: Go, and take the book that is open, from the hand of the angel who standeth upon the sea, and upon the earth. And I went to the angel, saying unto him, that he should give me the book. And he said to me: Take the book, and eat it up: and it shall make thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth it shall be sweet as honey. And I took the book from the hand of the angel, and ate it up: and it was in my mouth, sweet as honey: and when I had eaten it, my belly was bitter."
I was thinking of changing my top picture to a detail of this one. I'm really sort of a Philistine when it comes to art, but I have an appreciation for Dürer.
That would certainly be a good top picture.
ReplyDeleteI will brag on my reading Inferno some years ago, well before he-who-shall-not-be-named (who is currently bragging on it). Anyhoo, the copy I read had the awesome artwork of Gustave Dore.
Don't know whether any of those would fit what you want to say with the top picture here, but I dig 'em (28.118 is a fave). (I also noticed that the one of Mohammed ripping out his intestines forever is not in this collection -- hope that's not for PC reasons.)
$10 says it is. Here's Dore's pic of Mo. There is another picture of Mohammed in Hell in an Italian church and there was a Muslim plot shortly after 9/11 to blow up the church.
DeleteEgads, that close up of St. John devouring a book reminds me of someone we know who is always showing us pictures of himself devouring various things, preferably grown or made in France.
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