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Throughout history, artists have grappled with the problem of depicting clearly and forcefully the principles of evil and suffering in human existence."
With this view, the Lehners have collected 244 representations, symbols, and manuscript pages of Devils and death from Egyptian times to 1931.
Death, devils, and their history are very much with us today..
It is particularly useful to teachers, artists, and illustrators who need clear reproductions for the classroom, for models, or for commercial uses.
Anyone curious about witchcraft, death, and Devils will be interested in this book.
There are also chapters on the Fall of Lucifer, Faust and Mephistopheles, Hell and Damnation, The Apocalyptic Horsemen, Witch-Hunting, The Art of Dying, and Resurrection and Reckoning.
Most of the illustrations are collected in five of these chapters: Devils and Demons, including Belial, Beelzebub, and the Anti-Christ
Witches and Warlocks, their animals, forms, and rituals
The Danse Macabre, with the Dance of Death Alphabet by Holbein and representations of all classes leveled by the common force of death
Memento Mori, including a skull clock, a macabre representation of the Tree of Knowledge and Death, and the winged hourglass and scythe; and Religio-Political Devilry, the fight between the Papists and the Reformers, and symbols of Devils in other political disputes.
The book is divided into 12 chapters, each with a separate introduction.
The fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries are stressed.
Reproductions from Dürer, Holbein, Cranach, Rembrandt, and many other lesser-known or unknown artists illustrate the fascinating history. "
Throughout history, artists have grappled with the problem of depicting clearly and forcefully the principles of evil and suffering in human existence."
With this view, the Lehners have collected 244 representations, symbols, and manuscript pages of Devils and death from Egyptian times to 1931
