Alix Senator #7

The seventh volume of Alix Senator carries the weighty title "La puissance et l'éternité" — power and eternity — and Thierry Démarez's cover sets a striking, brooding tone immediately. Beneath the soaring columns of what appears to be a grand Roman rotunda, an older silver-haired figure cradles a younger, semi-conscious companion on the marble floor, a single candle casting warm amber light against the cool stone and an imposing SPQR inscription. Valérie Mangin and Démarez continue to bring their vision of ancient Rome to life with this 2018 entry, blending intimacy and monumental grandeur in a single, quietly powerful image.