Devil: A Mask Without a Face"highly entertaining and informative... This is a book worth arguing with, written with verve, wit and passion. It is also lavishly illustrated. I enjoyed every minute of it."—The Spectator "as comprehensive a guide as anyone could wish to the appearances of the Evil One in art and literature throughout the age."—The Herald |
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Adam and Eve Anubis Apocalypse Apostles artists Augustine Baldung Beatus became body buttocks cast Cathars cathedral Christ Christian Church classical condemned condottiere damned Dante dead demonology demons depicted Devil dragon Dürer Egyptian Elipandus Emperor engravings erotic eroticism evil example external heresy face fifteenth century figures flaming hair fresco Geiler Geiler's sermons Georges Bataille Giotto Gnosticism Heaven Hell Hercules and Deianira heresy heretics horns iconography idea illus imagination Jesus Jews Last Judgment paintings Limbourgs look Luca Signorelli Lucifer mandorla Marcantonio Mary medieval Michael Michelangelo Michelangelo's Last Judgment Moses motifs Museum naked devil no-one nude Judith Orvieto pagan Paolo perhaps Philippe Ariès pictorial pollution Pope popular probably rebel angels Renaissance Sabbat Satan Savonarola scene scourgers seems Sermon and Deeds sexual and sadistic shows Signorelli sinners Sistine Chapel Spranger suggests Tertullian Testament theme theological tortures Vasari viewer Vitellozzo voluptuous Weighing of Souls Winchester Psalter wings women woodcuts
References to this book
A History of the Devil: From the Middle Ages to the Present Robert Muchembled No preview available - 2004 |