Lucifer by Franz von Stuck (1890), oil on canvas
I saw a shape with human form and face, If such should in apotheosis stand: Deep in the shadows of a desolate land His burning feet obtained colossal base, And spheral on the lonely arc of space, His head, a menace unto heavens unspanned, Arose with towered eyes that might command The sunless, blank horizon of that place.
A Vision of Lucifer by Clark Ashton Smith










