Art ref: Klimt, the Medicine. (It’s not the whole painting, I wouldn’t have had the time and I preferred a version focused on the character.) I thought this one suited the Cardinal well, as the snake is very present in his attires. In the original work, the bodies represent the different states of human suffering. For my version, I chose to stick with skeletal silhouettes, which can be understood either as a nod to the Dance Macabre, or as the image of death and decrepitude brought on by sin (the apple and all that, as we saw a character closely resembling Copia holding out the apple on a backdrop…wink wink) I had to adapt the background a little by not placing the silhouettes in exactly the same place and not reproducing exactly the same motifs, it wouldn’t have made sense.
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