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Lukac2002 — King Minos, the Judge of the Damned
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Published: 2021-04-09 18:43:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 1997; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 0
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Minos stands there - horribly there - and barking.He, on the threshold, checks degrees of guilt,
then judges and dispatches with his twirling tail.
I mean that every ill-begotten creature,
when summoned here, confesses everything.
And he (his sense of sin is very fine)
perceives what place in Hell best suits each one,
and coils his tail around himself to tell
the numbered ring to which he’ll send them down.
Inferno: Canto V, lines 4-12 (translated by Robin Kirkpatrick).
Here’s my personal interpretation of King Minos, former king of Crete, now the Judge of the Damned. My version is basically a combination of Gustave Doré’s illustrations of the Divine Comedy, Michelangelo Buonarroti’s “The Last Judgement”, and Wayne Barlowe’s design for the 2010 video game Dante’s Inferno, in addition to some bull elements I personally added to remind people of his role in Greek mythology.
His design here is mostly indifferent than my stained-glass image, aside from the addition of a beard.
Also, today is the 721st anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s journey to Hell.
Images I used for inspiration:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…
custorage.blob.core.windows.ne…
www.mindwalkstudios.com/images…
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…
