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agumonkey 14 hours ago

well the man would have loved to have a chat with H.P. Lovecraft it seems

soupfordummies 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah… was not really expecting that!

GuB-42 14 hours ago | parent [-]

I also didn't expect that, but then I realized that's the work of a teenage boy with a catholic education!

Teenage boys love badass, edgy stuff. And what's badass and edgy in Catholicism? Demons! As for the art style, it is the style that was popular at the time.

In a sense, it is not so different from today's kids drawing scenes inspired from their favorite comic. Of course, the painting here shows incredible talent, he is Michelangelo after all, but that doesn't make him less of a kid.

agumonkey 12 hours ago | parent [-]

as a 20th century dude, i expected edgy medieval stuff to be more like knights in armor with 2 swords and dragons.. but maybe that is a distortion from our era.. maybe most of what people talked about was god, good and evil