Robert Mangold

Artist's Statement #2: The things that horrify and revolt us are often natural and sacred.

Gold ring with carnelian intaglio of cupid riding a dolphin, Roman, 100-200 AD

Sapphire intaglio, Safavid Iran, 16th-17th century

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Stage set designs for Mozart’s Magic Flute

"The treacheries of these souls were denials of love (which is God) and of all human warmth. Only the remorseless dead center of the ice will serve to express their natures. As they denied God's love, so are they furthest removed from the light and warmth of His Sun. As they denied all human ties, so are they bound only by the unyielding ice."

This final, deepest level of hell is reserved for traitors, betrayers and oath-breakers.

Lourdes Sanchez