Michael Landy unleashes holy terror on the National Gallery – in pictures
Michael Landy's suffering saints at the National Gallery, with Saint Jerome (2012) at the frontPhotograph: Sarah Lee for the GuardianMichael Landy with his work Saint Francis Lucky DipPhotograph: Sarah Lee for the GuardianA visitor takes in Landy's congregation of saintsPhotograph: sarah Lee for the Guardian
A detail of the Multi-Saint, which rolls the gruesome fates of Saints Peter, Lucy and Michael into one sculpturePhotograph: Sarah Lee for the GuardianPart of Multi-Saint, St Michael tramples a green demon underfootPhotograph: Sarah Lee for the GuardianA detail of Multi-SaintPhotograph: Sarah Lee for the GuardianSaint Jerome, whose mechanical hand beats his chest with a rock to assuage his sexual urgesPhotograph: Sarah Lee for the GuardianDoubting Thomas: the disembodied hand ceaselessly pokes at Christ's torsoPhotograph: Sarah Lee for the GuardianA full view of Multi-Saint, which incorporates the grisly martyrdoms of an assortment of saintsPhotograph: Sarah Lee for the GuardianSaint Apollonia, who jabs at her smashed-up teeth with a pair of pincersPhotograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian
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