THE PORTRAIT OF THE DEVIL

Prince of Darkness, Bearer of Light or King of Hell, the Devil has as many names than faces. But where has the monster with the bulging eyes and horns gone? of ebony and with a pestilential mouth, the Beast towards whom all the the downfalls and deviations of the human race? Thanks to a brilliant reading of the texts and images from the Renaissance and the Middle Ages, Daniel Arasse describes the irresistible rise of the Devil and reveals how humanist culture fought this dark medieval creature to relegate 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 does not dance no longer in the flames of Hell, the Devil is no longer the Other of man, the The devil is in man.