It’s often only a deceptive outward appearance 

Benevolent

A detail from <n>Saint Jerome Writing</n> (c. 1605-06), an oil painting by <n>Caravaggio</n>.

A detail from <n>William-Adolphe Bouguereau</n>'s 1850 painting, <n>Dante and Virgil in Hell</n>.

Well, would you look at that, Peter Polach

A detail from <n>Matthias Stom</n>'s <n>Baroque</n> painting, <n>The Incredulity of Saint Thomas</n>, circa 1640.

Detail from <n>Piero di Cosimo</n>'s '<n>Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci</n>,' c. 1490.

<n>Dante and Virgil in the Ninth Circle of Hell</n> (1861) by <n>Gustave Doré</n>.

Cover of <n>Helen Gardner</n>'s book, <n>Art Through the Ages, Study Guide</n>.

<n>A Christian Martyr Drowned in the Tiber During the Reign of Diocletian</n> (1853) by <n>Paul Delaroche</n>.

A detail from <n>The Fall of the Rebel Angels</n> (1666) by Italian painter <n>Luca Giordano</n>.