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Heavy metal band Black Sabbath released a compilation album titles Black Sabbath Greatest Hits in 1977 which used the painting as the front and back covers.In Underworld, a 1996 novel by Don Delillo, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover becomes utterly intrigued by the painting after seeing it reproduced in torn pages of Life magazine and eventually obtains a print of it.
The painting plays a pivotal role in The Rich Man's House, 2019, the final novel by Australian writer Andrew McGahan, with its theme of inevitable mortality. The rich man of the title (called Richman) has acquired the painting from the Museo del Prado and it hangs in pride of place in his mountaintop house.Described in detail as being displayed as a mural under 'The Theatre des Vampires' in Anne Rice's Novel "Interview With The Vampire", p. 225.
Copyright 1976 Anne O'Brien Rice. 
Published in U.S. by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House L.L.C., in 1976.
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