The Web's Dear Freja

Thinking about that time when sculptor Joseph Geefs made a sexy Lucifer sculpture for Liège Cathedral, and:

It generated controversy at once and was criticized for not representing a Christian ideal.[8] The cathedral administration declared that "this devil is too sublime."[9] The local press intimated that the work was distracting the "pretty penitent girls" who should have been listening to the sermons.[10] Bishop van Bommel soon ordered the removal of L'ange du mal, and the building committee passed the commission for the pulpit sculpture to Guillaume Geefs, whose version was installed at the cathedral permanently in 1848.[11]

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_g%C3%A9nie_du_mal)

...and then his brother Guillaume was evidently like "What's that? The devil isn't sublime enough? As sexy as possible, and then double it? On it."

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