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Jiří Anderle / Jiri Anderle
Bestia triumphans II
lept, měkký kryt / etching, vernis mou
1984, opus 271, 65 x 95,5 cm
34.000,- Kč / CZK
http://www.galerieart.cz/prodej_anderle_2.htm
For the “triumphant beast” and Giordano Bruno’s story see http://twitpic.com/8r5lyi or click for the image Description

Jiří Anderle / Jiri Anderle
Bestia triumphans II
lept, mekký kryt / etching, vernis mou
1984, opus 271, 65 x 95,5 cm
34.000,- Kc / CZK
http://www.galerieart.cz/prodej_anderle_2.htm
The title refers to the “sixteenth-century Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, who was tried by two Inquisitions and burned at the stake in Rome in 1600. Bruno’s most representative work, Spaccio de la bestia trionfante (The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast), published in an atmosphere of secrecy in 1584 and never referred to as anything but blasphemous for more than a century, was singled out by the church tribunal at the summation of his final trial. That is hardly surprising because the book is a daring indictment of the corruption of the social and religious institutions of his day. The ‘triumphant beast’ signifies the reign of multifarious vices.” Citation: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/796255.The_Expulsion_of_the_Triumphant_Beast