The Lust of an Insatiable Devil

Hello my steemian friends,

This is my participation in the contest”Art and Writing Contest #125 by @solperez in Venezolanos Steem

[contest picture]
This painting by the great Swiss artist Johann Heinrich Füssli presents the image of a dream, perhaps the woman is under the influence of a nightmare.

The sleeping woman is shown wrapped in a sheet at the end of the bed, her head hanging down, revealing her long neck and she looks lifeless and satiated.

A strange looking dwarf sits above her, looking at the viewers of this painting . The sleeping woman looks lifeless and is lying on her back. The artist used strong effects between light and shadow.

The appearance of the room is very mysterious and contemporary but at the same time fashionable and it has a small table on which a mirror, bottle and book are kept. The room has red curtains which hang behind the bed.

The back of the painting has a horse's head protruding from it with dangerous eyes. For the viewers of that time, this dangerous dwarf-horse relationship gave rise to the notion of a nightmare.

It was said in those times that demons and witches used to come in the dreams of beautiful women who slept alone and took over their minds.

The shape of the horse has been used to depict that the devil in the form of a horse used to satisfy his lust with the beautiful women in their sleep.

[Wikipedia has been used to know about the great artist]

I also want to invite here @josepha @haidee @paholags and @rosselena.

Thanks for reading my post, I pray to God for the progress and happy future of all Steemians.

Sur-riti❤️