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The dancers, the gold, the monumental architecture — all of it feels fragile once that supernatural glow appears. Martin loved these apocalyptic visions, not to moralize but to show how quickly power can collapse when confronted with something larger than itself. 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In the poem, Satan rises from defeat and summons his followers, and the palace of Pandemonium suddenly appears to house the council of all the demons. Martin shows this moment as a vast architectural panorama: a colossal, terraced palace lit from below by a river of lava, its long façade and repeating arches echoing contemporary designs for London’s rebuilt Houses of Parliament. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the foreground, on the right, a single figure stands on the rocks facing the fiery city — identified in museum records as Satan himself, raising shield and spear toward the palace across the chasm. 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Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Martin painted this scene in 1816, taking inspiration from \u003cstrong\u003eJoshua 10:12–13\u003c\/strong\u003e, where Joshua asks God to halt the sun and moon so Israel can finish the battle against the Amorites. Martin doesn't illustrate a clash of armies directly; instead, he builds a vast biblical landscape shaped by light and atmosphere. The distant city—likely meant to evoke Gibeon—sits on a plateau under a break in the clouds, where a supernatural shaft of sunlight cuts through the storm. That dramatic sky is Martin's main tool here: nature itself reacts to the command, turning the moment into something cosmic rather than military.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJoshua and his army appear at the lower right, miniature against the terrain, with Joshua raising his arm toward the heavens. 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