Lucifer, cast out of heaven, lies naked on a rock with one arm half hiding his face, while the loyal angels stream across the sky above him. Alexandre Cabanel painted it in Rome at 24, as one of the works students at the Villa Medici had to send back to Paris. The handsome youth turns defeat into wounded, furious pride.
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Look at the eyes above his arm: tears of rage stand in them. A thorny bramble trails behind his legs.
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