Diablo Collabs With Painter Adam Miller To Bring Demonic Art To A Cathedral in France

The Diablo series has partnered with renowned Baroque artist Adam Miller to make a demonic artistry mural at an old Cathedral in the city of Lille in Northern France.

The 160-foot mural is a conglomeration of 20 paintings covering the vintage ceiling and dome, along with a wider mural along the back wall.

The artist painted the ceiling of a deconsecrated cathedral in France with the demonic art of Diablo IV, to advertise the upcoming game. The installation is part of an art campaign Adam Miller is collaborating in with MJZ director Henry Hobson, Game of Thrones’s Charles Dance, and Blizzard Entertainment to bring the central images and scenes of the game alive within actual gothic architecture.

“This is a very unique project,” said Adam Miller, “It is a wonderful opportunity to be able to paint in a setting like this at this grand scale with figurative painting.” To accomplish the mural, Miller and his team painted on canvas before installing them in the cathedral to recreate the same look as iconic historic murals in the same vein as Caravaggio and Michelangelo.

Filmed Tour 

Accompanying the installation is a filmed tour through the cathedral. Directed by Henry Hobson and voiced by Game of Thrones’ Charles Dance, the film is crafted to allow viewers to experience the building and its atmosphere.

“The unique world of Diablo is a great playground to inhabit as a director—creeping tension, dark, foreboding, framed by awe-inspiring artistic vision. Having Adam’s work built from, the once-in-a-lifetime classical space ‘corrupted’ by Adam’s renaissance universe, adding layers of mystery and inferring the wider world as a battle rages within the space was utterly beguiling. After all, as a storyteller, what better place to play than within the canvas of a richly constructed video game world?” said Hobson.

Diablo IV will launch for PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on March 17th.

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