The Genius of Evil
by GEEFS, Guillaume, Marble
The statue of the Genius of Evil (or Lucifer) is located within the elaborate pulpit of St. Paul’s Cathedral. It depicts a classically beautiful man in his physical prime, chained, seated, and nearly nude but for drapery gathered over his thighs, his full length ensconced within a mandorla of bat wings. Geefs’s work replaces an earlier sculpture created for the space by his younger brother Joseph Geefs which was removed from the cathedral because of its distracting allure.