I would like to know what is exactly shown on this illustration by Doré for Milton's Paradise Lost.
The illustration can be seen here: http://www.canvasreplicas.com/images/Paradise%20Lo...
I would appreciate a checkable source :-)
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Satan/Lucifer is also known as a falling angel, so this shows him being cast out of heaven as an exile.
"Towards the coast of Earth beneath, Down from the ecliptic, sped with hoped success, Throws his steep flight in many an aëry wheel."
http://www.archive.org/stream/paradiselostillu00mi...
That is the Fall of Lucifer, showing him leaving the lighter regions of Heaven and heading down to the dark deeps of his exile:
http://www.giantbomb.com/lucifer/94-6907/all-image...