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Art of the Devil

By Graf , Arturo

Book information

Publisher
Parkstone International
Year
2012
ISBN
9781780429946, 1780429940
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
117 MB (122250303 bytes)
Series
Temptis
Pages
256\256
Time added
2015-05-01 01:20:43

Description

"The Devil holds the strings which move us!" (Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, 1857.)Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer ... the Devil has many names and faces, all of which have always served artists as a source of inspiration. Often commissioned by religious leaders as images of fear or veneration, depending on the society, representations of the underworld served to instruct believers and lead them along the path of righteousness. For other artists, such as Hieronymus Bosch, they provided a means of denouncing the moral decrepitude of one's contemporaries. In the same way, literature dealing wit.  Read more...

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