Destruction of the Turkish Fleet in the Bay of Chesme | Jacob Philipp Hackert | 1771 14th Century Jean Delville’s Idol of Perversity

Jean Delville’s Idol of Perversity (1891) is a haunting Symbolist illustration that fuses mysticism

Surrounded by demons and shadowed figures

transforming the sirens’ allure into something both irresistible and fatal

shadowy tones

Destruction of the Turkish Fleet in the Bay of Chesme | Jacob Philipp Hackert | 1771 14th Century Jean Delville’s Idol of PerversityThe Destruction of the Turkish Fleet in the Bay of eme (Battle of eme) was a dramatic naval climax of the Russo Turkish War of 17681774, fought between 57 July 1770 in the Aegean Sea near the Ottoman port of eme on the western coast of Anatolia. A Russian squadron under Count Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov and Admiral Grigory Spiridov, though outnumbered by the larger Ottoman fleet commanded by Mandalzade Hsameddin Pasha, aggressively engaged the Turks,