'Lost Demon' Uncovered in 230-Year-Old Painting After Painstaking Restoration
A demon has been discovered in the art world, and he has been lurking under layers of paint and varnish for decades.
Can see the before and after images in this article
Thanks, that original article was terrible.
MVP post right here. What big brained genius thought to not post the image in an article about an image?
It's an 18th Century painting by Joshua Reynolds called The Death of Cardinal Beaufort, based on a Shakespearean death scene.
It's a good death scene. The cardinal, near death, barely coherent, accidentally confesses to poisoning the Duke Gloucester to the King and Dukes of Salisbury and Warwick in his death throes. And Henry asks God to give him a sign that the Cardinal went to heaven, and... nothing happens.
#Henry VI Act 3, scene 3 Scene 3
Enter King Henry, Salisbury and Warwick, to the Cardinal in bed, raving and staring
KING HENRY
How fares my lord? Speak, Beaufort, to thy sovereign.
CARDINAL
If thou be’st Death, I’ll give thee England’s treasure,
Enough to purchase such another island,
So thou wilt let me live and feel no pain.
KING HENRY
Ah, what a sign it is of evil life,
Where Death’s approach is seen so terrible!
WARWICK
Beaufort, it is thy sovereign speaks to thee.
CARDINAL
Bring me unto my trial when you will.
Died he not in his bed? Where should he die?
Can I make men live, whe’er they will or no?
O, torture me no more! I will confess.
Alive again? Then show me where he is.
I’ll give a thousand pound to look upon him.
He hath no eyes! The dust hath blinded them.
Comb down his hair. Look, look. It stands upright,
Like lime-twigs set to catch my wingèd soul.
Give me some drink, and bid the apothecary
Bring the strong poison that I bought of him.
KING HENRY
O, Thou eternal mover of the heavens,
Look with a gentle eye upon this wretch!
O, beat away the busy meddling fiend
That lays strong siege unto this wretch’s soul,
And from his bosom purge this black despair!
WARWICK
See how the pangs of death do make him grin!
SALISBURY
Disturb him not. Let him pass peaceably.
KING HENRY
Peace to his soul, if God’s good pleasure be!—
Lord Card’nal, if thou think’st on heaven’s bliss,
Hold up thy hand; make signal of thy hope.
*The Cardinal dies.*
I think I've seen this movie before
One critic described it as "too ludicrous and puerile to escape censure"
You mean the guys with horns in the Bible?
Reynolds was known for the “experimental” way he painted, which involved the addition of unusual materials
no more detail on this little factoid, but i wonder what unusual materials he might have used to paint a demon
And so it begins… and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.