Cover art for Clive Barker's Books of Blood vol 1 (Published 1988) references 'Fall of the Damned' (1450 approx) by Dieric Bouts?

 

 

 leading from

 "Defiance" alien (from around 2015?) by Tristan Jones,

 

 

a) Cover art for Clive Barker's Books of Blood vol 1 (Published 1988)

 

 

 

b)  'Fall of the Damned' (1450 approx) DIERIC BOUTS (1415c-1475).

 

 

 

 

c)  Comparable area 1: Lower left

 

 

 

 

c.i) Open jaws of an animal become the open jaws of a humanoid entity

 

 

 

 

 

c.ii ) An upper leg becomes the half raised lower half of a humanoid entity

 

 

 

 

c.iii) The bare back of a man becomes a hand with long fingers

 

 

 

 

 

 

d) Comparable area 2: Centre

d.i) Buttocks become the elbow 

 

 

 

d.ii) Bent over forwards back of man becomes the stomach area

 

 

 

d.iii) Man's back becomes a stomach

 

 

 

 

d.iv) Raised arms becomes a horned demon. 

 

Perhaps the little eyes become the eyes of the creature but not because of the way he's placed.

A head below becomes its green hand

 

  

 

 

 e) Comparable area 3: Mid left

 

 

 

 

 

 

e.i) Demon's head becomes an upward looking head 

 

 

 

 

 e.ii) The bat like head's eyes become the man's eyes

 

 

 

 

e.iii) The feet become the smoke

 

 

 

e.iv) The rock becomes a ghostly human

 

 

 

 

 

 

f) Comparable area 4. Upper middle and left

 

 

 

 

 

f.i) Smoking towers become a pylon

 

f.ii) Rocks and flying demon become clouds of smoke

 

 

g) Comparable area 4; Upper right

f.i) Burning buildings become burning hair

 

 

 

 

 

 

f.ii)  Bat winged demon becomes winged entity in the distance

 

 

 

 

 

f.iii) Raised rear of a human becomes the big bald head of another human

 

 

 

 

 

 

g) Comparable area 5 

 

 

 

 

g.i) Woman's face becomes a photograph of Clive Barker

 

 

 

 

g.ii) Rocks become humanoid heads