| 词条 | The Great Red Dragon Paintings |
| 释义 |
The Great Red Dragon Paintings are a series of watercolour paintings by the English poet and painter William Blake, painted between 1805 and 1810.[1] It was during this period that Blake was commissioned to create over a hundred paintings intended to illustrate books of the Bible. These paintings depict 'The Great Red Dragon' in various scenes from the Book of Revelation. {{quote|And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth.|(Rev. 12:3-4, KJV)}}The paintingsThe Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in SunHeight: 43.7 cm, Width: 34.8 cm[2] Housed at the Brooklyn Museum. The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the SunThis image is similar to the work of the same name in the Brooklyn Museum (see above) but the subject is shown from a different viewpoint and the figures are in different positions. Height: 40.8 cm, Width: 33.7 cm[3] Housed at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.. The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the SeaHeight: 40.1 cm, Width: 35.6 cm[4] Housed at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.. The Number of the Beast is 666Height: 40.6 cm, Width: 33.0 cm[5] Housed at: the Rosenbach Museum & Library In mediaThe painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun plays a prominent role in Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon, its film adaptations, Manhunter and Red Dragon, and the TV series Hannibal, in which the primary antagonist Francis Dolarhyde has an obsession with the painting. Dolarhyde is fixated with the strength and power he thinks the dragon exudes, so he kills entire families to "become" the dragon. He also has a giant tattoo of the dragon on his back. It has also been used as the Oxford World's Classics front cover of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.[6] References1. ^Artcyclopedia {{William Blake|art}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Great Red Dragon Paintings}}2. ^Brooklyn Museum 3. ^[https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.11502.html National Gallery of Art] 4. ^[https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.11499.html National Gallery of Art] 5. ^Rosenbach Museum & Library 6. ^https://www.amazon.co.uk/Private-Memoirs-Confessions-Justified-Classics/dp/0199217955 9 : William Blake's mythology|Collections of the National Gallery of Art|English paintings|1800s paintings|Painting series|Art by William Blake|Paintings depicting Book of Revelation themes|Satan|Dragons in art |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。