Group picture

Not that I dislike the moth, but how about this one for group picture:

Let's rotate them, ok?

What is the devil reading?

Since he is vain, he's probably reading about himself in Milton's Paradise Lost.

How about?
http://www.librarything.com/pic/208362
One extremely horny devil by Rops.

#4

Added to the gallery, we'll give it a spin when Matt's devil finishes with Milton.

Marvellous. Matt, who is the sculptor?

I wish I knew

Howboutzees:

Death Triumphant, c. 1670:



Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Triumph of Death, c. 1562:



The Palermo Triumph of Death, c. 1446:

Or some wonderfully kitschy work by Kris Kuksi:









This is probably better suited to the Pro and Con Religion group:

How do we know that 1 is the devil and not, say, one of the extraterrestrials from Childhood's End?

Robert

And, indeed, how do we know the devil isn't one of the extraterrestrials from Childhood's End?

We DON'T!

#9

**chortling @ the churchtank**

We're amassing quite a museum here. I that case I think we also need some Vesalius:

http://www.librarything.com/pic/239224
Feel free to use anything that stikes your fancy, dear Lola.
;-)

Nice cephalopods.

Note the shadowy horned figure in the upper right.

What is the devil reading?

Scripture, no doubt. How else could he quote it.

Good old Doré - never gave up on a chance to show twisting ladies with surgically enhanced breasts.

The punishments appear to be so sensual I was reminded of Hokusai's print The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife:

There seems to be a long octopi / squid tradition in Japan.
http://www.librarything.com/pic/212313
http://www.librarything.com/pic/212314

And of course, the band Japanese Octopus Sex (self-described as "the suckiest band ever to suck") has its pages on facebook and MySpace.

Hmm...they say that they are located in Toronto -- E? Lola?

never heard of 'em. but they sound FUN

Signed,

inky not kinky

"inky not kinky"

Heh! I don't believe that!

A couple of years ago I visited Las Vegas and spent some time in a store that sold beautiful Asian antiques, including some stunning netsuke, which I collect. When the owner realized I was pretty serious about these little tchotchkes he offered to take me and my companion into a private room where the most expensive and least suitable for public showing examples were kept. Talk about kinky! And, yes, squid featured prominently in a number of them ;-)

(As it turned out, I ended up buying a perfectly innocent monkey and my companion snuck back later to buy me an adorable little cat as a birthday present. So no hentai stuff for us.)

Squiddy bondage!

I have a grand total of one (1) netsuke figure, but it IS an octopus, carved in fossil mammoth tooth. Also friend's gift.

And here it is, front and then back! (clickable piccies)



(Uh--is it still netsuke if it's not ivory?)

(Yes: they can be boxwood or porcelain, or several other things.)

Okay then! Thanks MyopicBookworm!

That much closer to being a collector of fine art.

Lola, yes, that's definitely netsuke! And a lovely example too!

I own a number of boxwood pieces. My personal favourite among these was manufactured in the 19th century. It's a skeleton in a monk's robe hunched over a wine flask. The skeleton is very ape-like and reminds me of the ape mentioned in 'Das Lied von der Erde'. I bought it at a time when that song-cycle was of enormous importance to me and the piece remains a sentimental favourite.

What an awesome group logo that is up presently. Who's responsible for it that we may blessedly curse thee with a lovely and everlasting damnation?