The portrait of the devil.
Arkhe| N° d'inventaire | 23426 |
| Format | 11 x 17 |
| Détails | 160 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782918682813 |
Prince of Darkness, Bearer of Light, or King of Hell, the Devil has as many names as he has faces. But where has the monster with bulging eyes, ebony horns, and a pestilential mouth gone, the Beast toward whom all the decadence and deviance of humankind converge? Through a brilliant reading of Renaissance and Medieval texts and images, Daniel Arasse describes the Devil's irresistible rise and reveals how humanist culture fought this dark medieval creature, relegating it to the rank of superstition.
Yet today, as yesterday, Satan continues to haunt the minds of men. But since then, we have lent him our face, our habits; he has become a metaphor for the "evil" that gnaws at the heart of humanity. While the Beast no longer dances in the flames of Hell, the Devil is no longer man's Other; the Devil is within man.
Prince of Darkness, Bearer of Light, or King of Hell, the Devil has as many names as he has faces. But where has the monster with bulging eyes, ebony horns, and a pestilential mouth gone, the Beast toward whom all the decadence and deviance of humankind converge? Through a brilliant reading of Renaissance and Medieval texts and images, Daniel Arasse describes the Devil's irresistible rise and reveals how humanist culture fought this dark medieval creature, relegating it to the rank of superstition.
Yet today, as yesterday, Satan continues to haunt the minds of men. But since then, we have lent him our face, our habits; he has become a metaphor for the "evil" that gnaws at the heart of humanity. While the Beast no longer dances in the flames of Hell, the Devil is no longer man's Other; the Devil is within man.