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I was curious whether there was any reason he had decided not to draw the dragon or
beast with horns, wondering whether it was to represent a more serpentine creature,
something that looked like it may actually have existed:
The question about the horns: the main reason was seeing the awkwardness which Dürer
and others had in dealing with the unequal number of heads and horns and crowns. John
probably had specific symbolic significance to each of these, but he was writing and not
creating images. I guess I simply felt I wasn’t able to find a satisfactory solution. I think
I included horns in my earliest sketches. Probably if I decided it mattered enough, I
could refocus on the problem and see what I come up with.
Steczynski’s Apocalypse images are crying out to be published in a fine-art rendition of
the Book of Revelation.
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