Page from Fantastic Four #85 (Published April 1969) featuring Doctor Doom, by Jack Kirby

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a)  The panel from Fantastic Four #85 published in April 1960 was for a story that was a homage to the TV series The Prisoner, and could be said to be inspired by the control room from that TV series.  Jack Kirby was a fan of the TV series and started off adapting the series into comicbook form almost finished issue one



Image from The Prisoner


b) See: References Resurrection of Christ painting? 

https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2020/06/panel-from-fantastic-four-85-published.html



c) See: References The Weaning of Furniture Nutrition (1934) by Salvador Dali? 

https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2020/06/panel-from-fantastic-four-85-published_30.html


d) See: Referenced in Biomechanic Metempsychosis (work 431) (1980) by HR Giger ?

https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2020/06/biomechanic-metempsychosis-work-431.html

Otto Dix's Skat players: Card Playing War Invalids (1920) ( Exploring its connections with Delville's "The Treasures of Satan", Dürer's "Jesus Among The Teachers" etc)

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a) Otto Dix's painting Skat Players shows itself off as a work borrowing elements from at least one depiction of the Henu Barque, Delville's "Treasures of Satan" and also Dürer's "Jesus Among The Doctors"

b) Comparison to Delville's Treasures of Satan
Comparing it to Treasures of Satan. The tendrils from the tentacles of the Satan have been transformed into the fan of newspapers. The tree like seaweed on the right of Satan have been transformed into a coat stand. The upper torso and leg at the front have been transformed into the middle man's metal jaw.

Treasures of Satan and Skat Players


c) Comparison to Dürer's Jesus Among The Doctors
Also it appears as if Dix turned the characters from Dürer's Jesus Among The Doctors into these characters playing skat with man wearing the white cap being transformed into the central man with a metal skull plate.

The hair coming from beneath the cap of the man on the left transforming into the pipe of the earphone.  The lower right bald man with a beard becomes transformed into the man with the blue jacket, and his beard is transformed into a metal jaw. The dark green robe of the man behind him who wears a white cap is transformed into the arm that the man in the right of Dix's painting holds over his head. The label on the right man's hat might have been a key element to get Dix to transform his work into a painting of men playing a card game.

Perhaps Dix understood Durer's painting's connection with the Henu Barque connection as well, giving him the idea of taking the Henu Barque from the Papyrus of Ani and turning the white pillow like area that would be piles of sand table into the white table but at the same time took inspiration from the hand configuration in Durer's painting that might have referenced the semic circular loops and ropes holding the Henu Barque down to the sledge runners at the bottom of the pillars

Dürer's Jesus Among The Doctors 1506


comparison between hand configuration and the table.

d) Comparisons to the Henu Barque
Does Skat Players also reference the Sokar Funerary Barque from the Papyrus of Ani as well?
 

The two straps holding the barque down to the sledge become the centre man's peg legs, while the upper U shaped ends of the straps become the stumps.
 

The three planks that make up the frame supporting the barque become the chair legs, the white area becomes the table. 

The three spoon like rudders three supports that hold the arm on the right chair.
 

At the top of the three central support frame, the ribbed structure going across become the newspapers. 

The antlers of the antelope become the lit folds on the curtain on the left


Henu Barque from Papyrus of Ani
black and white image of the Henu Barque from the Papyrus of Ani 
(source: The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, The British Museum Press)

A Battery Shelled by Wyndham Lewis. (1919) references Delville's Treasures of Satan?



http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2017/06/a-battery-shelled-by-wyndham-lewis-1919.html



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a) A Battery Shelled by Wyndham Lewis. (1919) 
A vorticist painting. The Vorticists were a British avant-garde group formed in London in 1914 with the aim of creating art that expressed the dynamism of the modern world, partly inspired by Cubism.

"The First World War, especially the Western Front, was dominated by artillery. Counter-battery work was essential in order to suppress enemy barrages and this painting illustrates the deadly effect of precise German bombardment. The three gunners in the foreground calmly observe the devastation before them; stylised figures struggle through the cratered landscape and distorted columns of smoke rise above the battery position. The serenity of the gunners in the face of immediate chaos reflects a fatalism and detachment perhaps derived from their distanced and impersonal mode of warfare. In style and content this painting was one of the most controversial to come out of the First World War." (http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/16688)





b) Treasures of Satan would have been roughly referenced for this, and the abstract shapes across the landscape at the middle to bottom would be loosely inspired by the bodies across Delville's work and the wall connecting with the middle of the painting from the left would be inspired by the shape of the top of the dark area on the left of Treasures of Satan. Tentacles of the Satanic being become trails of smoke in the sky in the background that seem like tendrils





c) Comparing the top of the dark area to what seems to be a wall half fallen over, 
There's also a roof in the background that fits in with the position of the arm and the hand in this section of the image.




 
d) And so roughly the bodies are transformed into these patterns on the ground





 
e) Meanwhile the three central figures would be in the space between the end of the tentacle to the right and the sleeping bodies, with the lower leg to the right of the Satan becoming the left figure.






f) So that would mean the doorway on the middle left in the background would be the space in between the Satan figure's legs, and the area of wall to the right of that doorway would be the upper leg.

Page from Fantastic Four #85 (Published April 1969) by Jack Kirby references Resurrection of Christ?


 a) Panel from Fantastic Four #85 (Published April 1969) by Jack Kirby



b) Resurrection of Christ painting and the one from a tryptich at the Ducal palace in Urbino (15th Century)


"The Resurrection" from a tryptich at the Ducal palace in Urbino (15th Century)



c) Christ's robe and the mountain behind him becomes the chair, the flag becomes the video monitor.





d) The leg on the right is transformed into Dr Doom's leg on the right.




e) The mountain in the distance and the top of the chair.




f) Lower part of Christ's makeshift robe and the chair





g) The tomb lid becomes the top part of a piece of computer apparatus mounted on a swivel





h) Mountain side to the right becomes video monitor to the right

 

Paage from Fantastic Four #85 (Published April 1969) references The Weaning of Furniture Nutrition (1934) by Salvador Dali?



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a) Fantastic Four #85 (Published April 1969)





b) The Weaning of Furniture Nutrition (1934) by Salvador Dali?




c) The distant mountain becomes the bottom of the screen




d) Comparable areas. Perhaps the cloth wrapped around the woman's head becomes the Doctor Doom hood and her arm shown her becomes his leg that's placed on the floor

 


 e) The cupboard becomes the video display unit within the red case




f) The blanket across the woman's lap becomes the top of the casing of the machine upon the swivel


"Jesus among the Doctors" (1506) by Albrecht Dürer references the Henu Barque?

The demon sitting on a high chair from The Garden of Earth Delights (1503-1515) by Hieronymus Bosch references the Henu Barque?

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a) Details
The kestrel head on top of the pillars has been turned into the demon on the highchair.

The oryx's horns are represented by the small blue flag which seems to be something that appeared to have been happening for a few hundred years in paintings of the Resurrection
 

The rib cage like fan becomes naked men.
 

The crouching man has been turned into a rabbit blowing a curved pipe.
 

The white pillow like forms have turned into a transparent bubble.
 

The barque itself has been turned into the cloth draped down the sides of the chair.
 

The three rudders have been turned into three heads of the people at the front of the crowd on the right.

The demon sitting on a high chair from  The Garden of Earth Delights
(1503-1515) by Hieronymus Bosch


http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/examples-of-depictions-of-sokar.html
The Henu Barque from The Papyrus of Ani


b) Details within the details
On a further level Oryx head becomes abstract black animal head
 

Bulls horns become the face in the mirror
 

Oryx horns become the frame of the mirror
 

Vertical rope hanging from the bulls horns and horizontal pole become arm green limbs with branches

White pillow or pile of sand become the sitting naked female 





Mona Lisa incorporates the Henu Barque?

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Mona Lisa/ La Gioconda ( c. 1503–06, perhaps continuing until c. 1517) 
by Leonardo Da Vinci.

a) Set off by a crazy question about why Delville should have merged the Henu Barque with the Mona Lisa when painting Treasures of Satan, perhaps there is more to this.

b) To me it looks as if Leonardo Da Vinci was another person to play with the Henu Barque's configuratons, namely the type of Henu Barque found in the Papyrus of Ani


http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/examples-of-depictions-of-sokar.html
The Henu Barque from The Papyrus of Ani

c) He turned the barge itself into the neckline of her dress, while the fan of the boat on the left become the vertical crinkles in her dress. 

d) The horizontal pole with diagonal lines running along it along the pole become the upper part of the neck line of her dress. 

e) He turned three support pillars into her breasts with the central one as the division between them, her face with the upper central pillar as her nose and the parting in her hair. 

f) But of course the human body is divided down the centre anyway so the comparison doesn't reveal anything special there.

g) The antelope horns generally into the curve of the top of her hair and perhaps the addition of a transparent veil over her head coming down an inch before her hairline, while the small bull horns become her nose while and ear becomes her right eye. 

h) Then the rudders at the far right of the barque become the three arches of the bridge. 
i) She leans on an arm rest and the henu barque rests on a block.  

j) The falcon head to the left of the three pillars becomes the zigzagging road and the rock above it. If there are any more comparisons to make, I'll happily list them. 

k) I don't know why there should b anything to loosely compare but I'm only comparing them because it looks as if Delville saw the connections there.


 l) The crouching man's skirt becomes Mona Lisa's hands


m) The rope with chains become her crinkly hair draped down across her shoulders.

n) See also: Treasures of Satan references the Mona Lisa/ La Gioconda





Alien Covenant: Domed citadel references "Satan presiding at the Infernal Council" (1824) by John Martin?



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The domed citadel as seen in the film Alien: Covenant

The domed citadel artwork by Wayne Haag

Alien Covenant, a large domed building features in the cityscape on the Engineer's planet.

Since we're looking at the knowledge that Ridley Scott had an interest in the Paradise Lost story, we can look at the fact that John Martin provided an illustration of Satan sitting on his throne on a dome shaped form back in 1824, and perhaps the idea of a dome with other architectural structures on the top caught his imagination.

This is not to say that the domed citadel is Satan's Throne, but it's an idea about otherworldly architecture connected with archaic forms from human imagination tying in with the Paradise Lost.


"Satan presiding at the Infernal Council" (1824) by John Martin