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The Seducer
The Seducer (Le Séducteur, also known as The Tempter) is a surrealist painting by René Magritte. It was created in 1950 and again in 1953 in Brussels, Belgium. The 1950 version is held by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the 1953 version is in a private collection. Other versions were created in 1951.
The painting portrays a fully rigged sailing ship on the sea against a blue sky: the silhouette of the ship is infilled with a continuation of the waves of the sea.
Old Testament and creator of matter and the physical world. The latter, often called "Rex Mundi" ("King of the World"), was identified as the God of Judaism, and was also either conflated with Satan or considered Satan's father or seducer. They explained the problem of evil by stating that the good God's power to do good was limited by the evil God's works and vice versa. All visible matter, including the human body, was created by this "Rex Mundi"; matter