THE ACTUALITY OF BARLOWE’S ILLUSTRATED INFERNO

Abstract

The purpose of this article, at the outset, is to show that the living metamorphic organism imagined by Wayne Barlowe, a contemporary American illustrator, as a landscape of his illustration of Hell, is actually the gigantic body of the Devil. In a second moment, I intend to show that this demonic agonizing consciousness is the reflection of the drama of human existence. The main theme of the article will thus be the representation of the bodies, both of the demons and of the damned, and their relation to the spaces in the illustrated Inferno of Wayne Barlowe.