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Mythology & Symbols
Every symbol in art has a story behind it. Every myth left a mark on the canvas. This is where we decode both.
Why Artists Have Painted the Devil for 1,500 Years
Every time humanity painted the Devil, it was painting a mirror, and the face in that mirror kept changing. From an almost angelic blue mosaic in Ravenna, to Bosch's hollow-stomached monster, to Blake's beautiful and defiant Satan, the Devil in art was never really about evil. He was a barometer for whatever a society couldn't look at directly. This is the story of what five centuries of painting the Devil reveal about human fear, and what it says about us now.
