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Devil : The Archfiend in Art from the Sixth to the Sixteenth Century by Luther Link (1996, Hardcover)

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The Devil: The Archfiend in Art from the Sixth to the Sixteenth Century

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Product Identifiers

PublisherAbrams, Inc.

ISBN-100810932261

ISBN-139780810932265

eBay Product ID (ePID)386755

Product Key Features

Book TitleDevil : the Archfiend in Art from the Sixth to the Sixteenth Century

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1996

TopicDemonology & Satanism

IllustratorYes

GenreReligion

AuthorLuther Link

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight22.9 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width61.2 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN95-030181

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal704.9/487

SynopsisThrough paintings, sculpture, and the decorative arts, Luther Link examines common perceptions of the Devil's image and attributes - his tail, horns, flaming hair, pitchfork. Yet, as Link shows, there is no one standard depiction of Satan, just as he has no one name. Behind the mask of evil, he has taken a bewildering variety of forms: he can be the bloated and wanton cannibal of Giotto's Last Judgment; he can be half wise old man, half malevolent monster; he can even be beautiful and grand, as in the Limbourg Brothers' Fall of Lucifer. Link's compelling text identifies for the first time the origins of many of the Devil's features, provides new perspectives on the image of the Devil today and in medieval and early Renaissance times, and offers unexpected insights or artworks ranging from illuminated manuscripts, mosaics, and reliefs to Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes. Drawing on original textual sources, including colorful accounts of the Devil's origins in the Bible, the Apocrypha, the writings of St. Augustine, and reports on the intrigues of popes and emperors, Link produces a fresh view of this powerful and mysterious figure.

LC Classification NumberN8140.L56 1996