William Blake The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun Print

The Painting That Changed Visionary Art Forever 🖼️

Created between 1803 and 1805 as part of Blake's celebrated Book of Revelation watercolour series, this masterwork depicts one of scripture's most electrifying confrontations: the monstrous Great Red Dragon, a seven-headed embodiment of Satan himself, descending with terrifying wingspan upon a luminous woman clothed in sunlight, the moon curved beneath her feet like a cradle.

Blake draws directly from Revelation 12, in which the dragon, crowned with seven diadems and armed with ten horns, swoops to destroy the woman who has given birth to a follower of God destined to spread the Christian faith across the earth. Below them, hapless souls are engulfed by a rising deluge summoned by the devil himself. And yet the woman is not consumed. God grants her wings, and she is carried to safety.

What makes this image so devastatingly powerful, and so utterly contemporary in its resonance, is Blake's radical visual philosophy. Look closely at the composition: the dragon's outstretched arms and the woman's own arc toward each other in perfect mirror image. Good and evil, Blake suggests, are not opposing forces but a duality, the dark and light sides of the same moon. It is a profoundly modern idea, rendered in the visual language of the sublime.

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