Blizzard filled a deconsecrated French church with Diablo 4 murals

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The era of truly licentious videogame marketing stunts has been waning ever since that time Sony used a dead goat(opens in new tab) to promote the original God of War, but here's at least a mildly risqué performance from Blizzard: The Diablo 4 developer has covered the interior of a French cathedral with depictions of the game's battle with Lilith, Queen of the Succubi.

The cathedral in question is the Chapelle des Jésuites (Jesuits' Chapel) in Cambrai, a Baroque-style 17th-century church in northern France. The building has been deconsecrated, according to Blizzard, meaning it's not officially a sacred site. It is a historical monument, though, so if you're wondering whether Blizzard actually painted «the five character classes from Diablo 4 as they clash with the powers of evil» onto the chapel's interior: it did not. A total of 20 paintings were done on canvas and then installed on the cathedral's ceiling, dome, and back wall.

All together, the works comprise a 160-foot mural and took 30 days to paint, according to Blizzard. They were completed by a team led by artist Adam Miller(opens in new tab),  who says the project interested him in part because «the scale and the speed of it seemed a bit insane.» Henry Hobson, who directed the video of the art installation embedded above, described the result as a classical space that had been «corrupted» by Miller's depictions of the Diablo universe. (See more in the making-of video below.)

The murals probably don't fit in with the chapel's existing paintings, depictions of the life of Christ by Flemish painter Arnould de Vuez(opens in new tab), but I wouldn't really say that the space has been corrupted, at least not by the demonic content of the artwork. As one example, Jan