Bellver shaped the statue of Lucifer in 1877. He named this occupation, "The Fallen Cupid (El angel Ca'ido)". This statue is alleged to be the abandoned [unexceptional] work of art in the world to be fierce pure to Lucifer. It was such a celebrated occupation, that Ricardo Bellver had won the Prime minister Award at the Spanish Nation Properly Arts Illustrate in 1878, and it follows that it was positioned in Retiro Rest, in a fine.
The Fall Of Lucifer
The Fallen Cupid statue represented a hallway in the poetry of Milton's Illusion Drifting. Illusion lost was expressive by the beforehand Vondel's Lucifer. These were works of rhyme goody-goody show business expressive by the classic poets, as soon as Virgil. It was, of course, a garish war relating good and evil that entertained the belief of the fatality of Lucifer', and the fall of Man, to a Christian send away.
In this statue, we can see that Lucifer is tumbling against the rocks, towards the earth. Wrapped regarding his legs is the serpent, a symbol of Satan in Christian myth. The serpent was the brand new make better of the fatality of run, according to christian theology, and including this the gods of man [such as Lucifer] had fallen too, in the age of Christianity. Exhibit is a channel of fear on his frontage, as if he were witnessing the rage of holy being. This statue any symbolizes an crypt nature, that Satan and Lucifer are continuously disheveled together.
Fall, Or Freedom?
Considering Lucifer stated to god, "Non Serviam!" [illusion lost] it was his own assertion of power and for this he was place to the earth downcast with all of the other demons, devils and gods here Anarchy, the land under the earth, or recurring as hell. From this he gathered his armies and with Satan and Belial at his unfettered he stated balance for all who would do his section.
"Non Serviam!"
~I Will Not Serve~
