Gold Medal Famous Album Cover by Dr Geoffrey Roche



The artist acknowledges the following sources:

Top left corner, letter ‘G’: Alchemical symbol representing the transmutation of base metal into silver and gold. Elias Ashmole (1617-1692), Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. London, 1652. Top left female angel: loosely based on a male angel in Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), Whore of Babylon, from The Apocalypse (1498), with a hint of S. Clay Wilson (b. 1941). Angel with clock, and angel at top right, various monster heads at upper centre, penitent on his knees, cup of abominations (further inspired by the erotic furniture of Catherine II of Russia, Catherine the Great, Yekaterina Alekseyevna {1729-1796} and the linework of Robert Williams {b.1943}), clouds, flames: Dürer, Whore of Babylon. Bottom right: depiction of St Anthony, from Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. 1472-1553), The Temptation of St Anthony, 1506. Right hand side, bird monster, bottom left corner, victim of ergotism: Matthias Grünewald (c. 1470 –1528), Isenheim Altarpiece, right hand outer panel. Medieval military bird-ship aircraft, tail rigging damaged in collision with demon: Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450 –1516), Triptych of the Temptation of St. Anthony, centre panel (c.150-1510). Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and Abominations of the Earth, Revelations 17:1 to 17:5: adapted from a figure in the painting La Palais des merveilles (Palace of Wonders,1907-1927) by Clovis Trouille (1889-1975). Left hand side, landscape details: Anton Eisenhoit (dates unknown), (1590) Haeresis Dea (Goddess of Heresy). Concept by Chris Wilson. Copyright Geoffrey Roche, April 2019.

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