So I was watching this show on National Geographic. It was called the Devil's Bible. I'm not going to explain what it was about because it was a crappy piece that seems to be status quo for NatGeo these days. One thing I absolutely loved about it though, is the montage of dark artwork depicting demon possessions in a literal manner. I like the more macabre, "evil" and romantic part of Christian folklore. Does anybody know where I can find more art like this? It was mostly drawings, some were paintings. If I had to guess, I would say it's 17th century Mannerism. Some was more Medieval, but the good shit seemed to be a bit more contemporary than medieval, like I said Mannerism or maybe Renaissance.
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http://www.knox.edu/Images/_Academic/Art/Rembrandt/ribera-st-jerome.jpe
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_22.67.14.jpg
Stuff like this. Apparently this is Spanish artwork from the early 17th century.
I also enjoyed this one by Hendrick Goltzius
http://www.arthermitage.org/Hendrick-Goltzius/Dragon-Devouring-the-Companions-of-Cadmus.big.html
Some more famous dark artist would be:
Albrecht Durer
Francisco Goya
I'm interested in what this thread puts out since I'm bad at remembering artist names.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Dictionnaire_Infernal
This may not be christian per se but is wonderfully freaky.
http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/search?q=rabelais
This is completely off topic, but did you know there's a German death metal band called 'Rotten Seed'? Their lyrics are apparantly about violence, death and blood. Something you wanna tell us?
Yea I did...no affiliation, I assure you.
Also try:
Hans Baldung (Grien), Martin Schongauer, Jacques Callot... and Michael Pacher maybe as well.
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