"The Angel Michael Binding Satan", William Blake, c. 1805
William Blake (1757–1827)
Full title: The Angel Michael Binding Satan ("He Cast him into the Bottomless Pit, and Shut him up")
Drawing, watercolor, black ink, and graphite on off-white wove paper, 35.9 x 32.5 cm. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of W. A. White.
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William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. He produced a diverse and symbolically rich collection of works, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God" or "human existence itself".
Although Blake was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, he is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. His paintings and poetry have been characterised as part of the Romantic movement and as "Pre-Romantic". In fact, he has been said to be "a key early proponent of both Romanticism and Nationalism". A committed Christian who was hostile to the Church of England (indeed, to almost all forms of organised religion), Blake was influenced by the ideals and ambitions of the French and American revolutions.
-Wikipedia
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