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The Fall of the Rebel Angels

Wings of desire: how butterflies have captivated artists

December 31, 2019March 24, 2015 by Editorial

From Bruegel to Nabokov and The Silence of the Lambs, butterflies have flitted through our imaginations and into our culture. Patrick Barkham pins up the choice specimens – and finds out why new film The Duke of Burgundy is awash with them

Categories Art Tags Art, Art and design, Article, artistic butterflies, Arts, Berberian Sound Studio, Books, Britain’s rarest butterflies, butterflies, butterflies in art, Butterflies symbols, butterfly in Pyrenees cave paintings, Christian butterfly collectors, Culture, Damien Hirst, Drama, Enid Blyton, eyed hawkmoth, Features, Fiction, film, fleeting nature of life, G2, Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Earthly Delights, Horror, lepidoptera, lepidoptera in art, Painting, Patrick Barkham, peacock butterfly, Peter Strickland, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies, The Duke of Burgundy, The Fall of the Rebel Angels, The Guardian, Vladimir Nabokov

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