Representations of the devil as the final tormentor of men belong to mediaeval rather than to primitive art. <\/p>\n
Probably the earliest existing representation of hell is in the mosaics of Torcello, as that painted by Methodins, even if its story be true, has perished. In early art the devil generally appears in the form of a serpent as the tempter of man in this world. Didron, however, in the Iconographie du Serpent, mentions a gnostic combination of human and serpentine form, with leonine head and face, derived from the ancient Egyptian symbol of a lion-headed serpent. ‘The human, being predominant, appears an anticipation of the personified serpent of the middle ages. The Gothic or medieval representations seem to begin in Italy with the fiend in the Chase of Theodoric, which, till lately destroyed by gradual and wanton mischief, adorned the front of San Zenone in Verona. In the Laurentian MS. of Rabula (A.D. 587) there is an extraordinary representation of the deemoniacs of Gadara, just delivered from their tormenting spirits, who are fluttering away in the form of little black humanities of mischievous expression<\/p>\n
Devil, In Art Representations of the devil as the final tormentor of men belong to mediaeval rather than to primitive art. Probably the earliest existing representation of hell is in the mosaics of Torcello, as that painted by Methodins, even if its story be true, has perished. In early art the devil generally appears in … Continue reading “Devil, In Art”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}