Beauty, Art and Horror

The Statue of Cleopatra, Rome’s National Gallery of Modern Art.

catholics be like “don’t be horny kids” and then bombard you with images of half naked men tied up to things 

ur right and u should say it

“So, we want a depiction of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, risen after his crucifixion, a reminder of the strength and glory of God!”

Michelangelo: “Strength and glory, got it.”

“What.What is that.”

Michelangelo: “ It’s our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, risen after his crucifixion!”

“…”

Michelangelo: “I call it, “Risen Christ!”

“…Why is he so…”

Michelangelo: “…What?”

“…Never mind.”    

the statue in the bottom right is Le génie du mal, carved by guillame geefs to replace a different lucifer (known as either Le génie du mal or L’ange du mal) carved by his younger brother. why did joseph geefs’ lucifer get removed from the cathedral? it was too sexy. the statue was too sexy by far.

st. paul’s cathedral in liége went from one lucifer, whom they called ‘too sublime’ and removed because he was distracting ‘pretty penitent girls,’ to another lucifer, who they’ve left there for 170 years even though he’s so hot that satanists visit the cathedral to meditate in the presence of this Most Sexy Of Lucifers

here’s how i imagine that went down.

liege cathedral: hmm. you know what we need? a nice satan for our church. let’s ask joey geefs

joseph geefs: sculpts this

liege cathedral: no!! too hot!! now we all want to fuck lucifer! we need a different satan. let’s ask… the sexy lucifer sculptor’s BROTHER. yes. willy geefs is older so he definitely doesn’t want to fuck lucifer

guillaume geefs, who DOES want to fuck lucifer, and the only sign of his being older than his brother is that the lucifer he wants to fuck is somewhat older: sculpts this

liege cathedral: shit. well we don’t have any more money for lucifers so i guess we’ll keep this sexy lucifer

mlm, straight girls, and satanists in the vicinity of liege: NICE

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

I call architecture frozen music- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Asleep” is the marble gravestone of Laurence Matheson (1930-1987), sculpted at the request of his widow by artist Peter Shipperheyn.The grave of Laurence Matheson is located in the Mount Macedon Cemetery of Victoria, Australia. 

Beata Ludovica Albertoni Bernini 1671-74 Marble San Francesco a Ripa, Rome

David by Michelangelo 

Ricardo Motilla Bronze of San Sebastian the Roman martyr and patron of the city of León, Guanajuato

Perseus with the Head of Medusa Benvenuto Cellini 1545-1554 Bronze Piazza della Signoria, Florence

Canova’s “Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss”, by Nan Goldin - 2010 

Francois Rude, Mercury Attaching his Wings, Louvre

Lucifer (Morningstar)

A wax sculpture depicting the devil snared in a set of power lines built by Paul Fryer. The sculpture is illuminated by the church’s stained glass windows.

It can be seen at The Holy Trinity Church in Marylebone, Westminster.