Film
The book series from which Disney drew inspiration in this case is the one of the same name by Margery Sharp, a famous English writer who tells of two mice who are members of the International Rescue Society (SAS) with the mission to rescue the orphan Penny, held captive by Madame Medusa in the picturesque Devil's Swamp. The antagonist of this Classic is a greedy woman obsessed with diamonds. No, no, she is obsessed with one diamond in particular: the Devil's Eye, the largest diamond in the world. To get it, she is willing to do anything, including exploiting Penny and making her descend into a dark, narrow cave, which only a small person can enter, to retrieve it. However, this greed and obsession will lead to her ultimate downfall. The film offers the typical wonders of Disney animation, made up of both sweet and disturbing moments, and is characterised by the co-presence of veterans and newcomers, which gives the film a hybrid flavour. An adventure, that of Bianca and Bernie, which was so successful that it went down in history as the first Disney Classic to go on to an official sequel in 1990.
Art
If the skull in Devil's Swamp concealed the world's largest diamond, Damine Hirst's skull is entirely covered with it. For the Love of God, a sculpture by British artist Damien Hirst, consists of a platinum cast of an 18th century human skull encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds, including a pear-shaped pink diamond located in the forehead. Also known as Skull Star Diamond, the artwork is Hirst's dazzling and contemporary memento mori, a reminder of our common mortality, but at the same time proclaiming Madame Medusa's dream: victory over decadence. It depicts death as something infinitely more inexorable, but compared to tearful vanity, the diamond skull is glory itself. The work was shown for the first time at the White Cube Gallery in London, in the exhibition Beyond Belief. In November-December 2008, Hirst exhibited the diamond skull at the historic Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. For the Love of God was also exhibited at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence and at the Tate Modern in London in 2012. The work was exhibited in Doha, Qatar, and at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, Norway. After the sculpture was sold to an investment group for USD 100 million, it is still owned by them and has been in storage in Hatton Garden, London's jewellery district, for 15 years.
External Links
Watch The Rescuers on Disney +
The artwork:
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