[PDF.31pg] The Devil: A Mask Without a Face (Picturing History)

The Devil: A Mask Without a Face (Picturing History)

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||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Another Reaktion Books Success!|By Amanda Chesworth|The book begins with a quote by Origen: "No one can know the origin of evil who has not grasped the truth about the so-called Devil and his angels, and who he was before he became a Devil and how he became a Devil..."

This understanding is exactly what the author sets out to provide and he does so with great mastery| |'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 t

Today we imagine the Devil with horns, tail and pitchfork, but medieval and early Renaissance artists saw him very differently. In illuminated manuscripts, mosaics, frescoes, and carved capitals he is to be found in a bewildering variety of forms and guises. The lack of a stable pictorial model, misreadings of Mesopotamian and classical figures, and the Church's own shifting response to heresies, have all helped determine how the Devil was represented. Who he really was ...

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