Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition: Featuring Robert Langdon by Dan Brown

Author:Dan Brown [Brown, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Mystery, Thriller, Adventure, Suspense, Historical
ISBN: 9780385539920
Google: nRLoAwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00L6YJ64K
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Goodreads: 22747239
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2013-05-14T10:00:00+00:00

MOSAIC CEILING OF THE BAPTISTRY

JESUS, MOSAIC DETAIL, BAPTISTRY CEILING

THREE-HEADED SATAN, MOSAIC DETAIL, BAPTISTRY CEILING

Langdon fixed his gaze now on the centerpiece of the mosaic. Hovering directly above the main altar rose a twenty-seven-foot-tall Jesus Christ, seated in judgment over the saved and the damned.

At Jesus’ right hand, the righteous received the reward of everlasting life.

On His left hand, however, the sinful were stoned, roasted on spikes, and eaten by all manner of creatures.

Overseeing the torture was a colossal mosaic of Satan portrayed as an infernal, man-eating beast. Langdon always flinched when he saw this figure, which more than seven hundred years ago had stared down at the young Dante Alighieri, terrifying him and eventually inspiring his vivid portrayal of what lurked in the final ring of hell.

The frightening mosaic overhead depicted a horned devil that was in the process of consuming a human being headfirst. The victim’s legs dangled from Satan’s mouth in a way that resembled the flailing legs of the half-buried sinners in Dante’s Malebolge.

On his head he had three faces … his three chins gushing a bloody froth … his three mouths used as grinders … gnashing sinners three at once.

—FROM DANTE’S INFERNO, CANTO XXXIV

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