French artist Alexandre Cabanel focused on religious, classical, and historical subjects. Today, his works are showcased in many of the world’s most prestigious art exhibitions.
Another extremely well-known and respected piece of art that Cabanel painted was The Birth of Venus (1863), which is located at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.
Above Lucifer and assumingly behind him, we see several angels floating and flying past, wrapped within each other in the boundless stretch of the sky.
We see the nude Lucifer lying in a striking pose on a rock. His expression is almost scowling, filled with rage and sadness. His position and the tears in his eye display his determination and readiness to attack.
Lucifer’s enormous wing – which extends from the rocks in the forefront to the heavens and connects the lower and top parts of the picture – makes the left side of the composition more rounded and shrouded.