Helluva Boss (S3)

The Divine Comedy - Dante (1320)

the nine circles · 'Lasciate ogne speranza' · Virgil · Charon · the map of Hell · engravings by Dore and Blake

Pazuzu and the 72

Heads of Pazuzu with the loop that hung them round the neck: a dog's muzzle, bulging eyes, four wings, raptor's talons and a scorpion's tail. Circular seals for the 72 spirits, drawn like signatures. And Louis Le Breton's bestiary: three-headed Bael on spider's legs, Beelzebub turned into a fly, Amdusias with the head of a unicorn, and Stolas as a crowned owl on absurdly long legs.

Roses, bears and boars

White boar with gold tusks, bear chained to a knotted staff, falcon inside a horse's fetterlock, swan crowned at the neck and chained, castle portcullis with its chains hanging, sun with straight and wavy rays alternating, white rose set over that sun, the Stafford rope knot, chained antelope. The background colours are blue and murrey, the mulberry red the Yorkists took up after the death of old Duke Richard. These are not full coats of arms: they are loose badges, button-sized, made to be sewn to a sleeve.

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Forms of Nature

Millimetre-wide radiolarians turned into rose windows, siphonophores hanging like chandeliers, jellyfish trailing golden filaments, diatoms, lichens, orchids, bats and antelopes arranged by symmetry on black. Birds at life size and caught mid-violence, the flamingo bent into a U because there was no other way to fit it on the sheet. And a whole metamorphosis in a single print: the plant, the egg, the caterpillar, the chrysalis, the adult — plus a pinktoe tarantula eating a hummingbird.