a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by caio
caio  ·  4496 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski at the museum.
    Because of the popularity of the work, Füssli painted a number of versions.

The incubus in this one is much more sexual. Interestingly, the first has a book on the table, but this one hasn't.





b_b  ·  4496 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Probably the book has to do with fantasy or knowledge, and whoever paid for the second one thought that education was virtuous and they didn't want to associate books with the devil.