The Great Red Dragon Paintings

The Great Red Dragon Paintings

The Great Red Dragon Paintings are a series of watercolor paintings by the English poet and painter William Blake between 1805 and 1810 [ [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/red-dragon-william-blake.html Artcyclopedia] ] . It was during this period that Blake was commissioned to create over a hundred paintings intended to illustrate books of the Bible. These paintings depict 'The Great Red Dragon' in various events from the Book of Revelation.

The Paintings

The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun

In this painting, the Dragon is seen ready to devour the child of the pregnant woman, who symbolises the Church, the Virgin Mary, and Israel.

Height: 54.6cm, Width: 43.2cm [ [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/collections/european_art/15.368.php Brooklyn Museum] ]

Housed at the Brooklyn Museum.

The Great Red Dragon and the Woman clothed with the Sun

This image is similar to "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman clothed in Sun" but shown from a different viewpoint.Height: 40.8, Width: 33.7cm [ [http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=11507+0+none National Gallery of Art] ]

Housed at the National Gallery of Art.

The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea

Height: 40.1cm, Width: 35.6cm [ [http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=11504+0+none National Gallery of Art] ]

Housed at the National Gallery of Art.

The Number of the Beast is 666

Height: 40.6cm, Width: 33.0cm [ [http://rosenbach.pastperfect-online.com/32739cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=631BD878-D097-46E6-8D4D-441785163885;type=101 Rosenbach Museum & Library] ]

Housed at the Rosenbach Museum & Library.

References in popular culture

* The character of the Great Red Dragon plays a prominent role in Thomas Harris' novel "Red Dragon" and its film adaptations, "Manhunter" and "Red Dragon", in which the primary antagonist Francis Dolarhyde has an obsession with the painting. Thomas Harris makes an error in citing "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun" as the object of Dolarhyde's fixation while describing "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun", specifically the Dragon's tail wrapping around the woman, a detail specifically accurate of the "in" painting. "Manhunter" shows the "with" painting as named in Harris's book whereas "Red Dragon" uses "in" as described by Harris.

* A mural-sized reproduction of "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in the Sun" appears painted on a wall in "Sight Unseen," an episode of "The Flash". The television series' art direction is noted for regularly featuring elaborate, theme-specific murals.

*All of the paintings in the series were used for the artwork of the "Legend" CD trilogy (1997-2007) by the band Saviour Machine.

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