Kris Leliel

Nightmares, dreams or rêveries • Gustave Doré (1832-1883)

Satan’s Fall by from John Milton’s Paradise Lost illustrated by Gustave Doré in 1866.

Paul Gustave Doré - Death on the Pale Horse

Adam Chmielowski

Antonio García Vega - La Parca

Edouard Ravel de Malval - Death on a Pale Horse

Dave Mckean

Leonaert Bramer - Mors Triumphans

William Turner - Death on a Pale Horse

Zdzisław Beksiński

Salvador Dalí - The Knight of Death

In Hell there grew a Judas Tree

Where Judas hanged and died

Because he could not bear to see

His master crucified

Our Lord descended into Hell

And found his Judas there

For ever hanging on the tree

Grown from his own despair

So Jesus cut his Judas down

And took him in his arms

“It was for this I came” he said

“And not to do you harm

My Father gave me twelve good men

And all of them I kept

Though one betrayed and one denied

Some fled and others slept

In three days’ time I must return

To make the others glad

But first I had to come to Hell

And share the death you had

My tree will grow in place of yours

Its roots lie here as well

There is no final victory

Without this soul from Hell”

So when we all condemned him

As of every traitor worst

Remember that of all his men

Our Lord forgave him first

- The Judas Tree, D. Ruth Etchells

The Vision of Hell by Dante Alighieri, illustrated by Gustav Dore, 1892

Gustave Doré, Illustration for John Milton’s “Paradise Lost“, 1866.