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The main article for this page is Demon. Pages in category "Demons in art" ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
A man dressed as the Devil at New York City's West Indian Day Parade.. The Devil (Satan, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Iblis) appears frequently as a character in literature and other media.
Theistic Satanists may worship it as a deity or demon, while atheistic Satanists see it as a metaphorical symbol. The goat-headed Baphomet image seen here is a 19th-century drawing made by Eliphas Levi as a metaphorical symbol from Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie. It was not originally created as a Satanic symbol or a deity.
The choice of exhibiting demons throughout the paintings was for them to appear as negative entities that instill danger to the community. Influences of the Shahnameh and the biblical Solomon alluded to the North as the domain for demons, with Siyah Qalam suggesting that there was a connection to the Sufis (who progressed from the north). [12]
Matthias Grünewald, inner right wing of the Isenheim Altarpiece depicting the Temptation of St. Anthony, 1512-1516 (oil on panel). The Temptation of Saint Anthony is an often-repeated subject in the history of art and literature, concerning the supernatural temptation reportedly faced by Saint Anthony the Great during his sojourn in the Egyptian desert.
Yūrei-zu (幽霊図) are a genre of Japanese art consisting of painted or woodblock print images of ghosts, demons and other supernatural beings. They are considered to be a subgenre of fūzokuga, "pictures of manners and customs." [1] These types of art works reached the peak of their popularity in Japan in the mid- to late 19th century. [2]
The Nightmare is a 1781 oil painting by the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli.It shows a woman with her arms thrown below her, in deep sleep as she undergoes a nightmare as an almost hidden horse (the "night-mare") looks on as a demonic and ape-like incubus crouches on her chest. [1]
Demon name Image Origins of the seal Bael or Beelzebub: Lesser Key of Solomon ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...