Ernst Lehner - Devils, Demons and Witchcraft
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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. Reproductions from Drer, Holbein, Cranach, Rembrandt, and many other lesser-known or unknown artists illustrate the fascinating history. The fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries are stressed.
The book is divided into 12 chapters, each with a separate introduction. 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. 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.
Anyone curious about witchcraft, death, and devils will be interested in this book. It is particularly useful to teachers, artists, and illustrators who need clear reproductions for the classroom, for models, or for commercial uses. Death, devils, and their history are very much with us today.
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Meet the Devil. Nowadays he usually appears as a suave, sly man with telltale horns, hooves and tail; but in the past his bestial nature was emphasized and he cropped up in a wide variety of animal and mixed formsusually loathly, since (in most artistic conceptions) he had sacrificed his angelic beauty when he disobeyed and rebelled against God. (As shown in some illustrations in this chapter, animal forms for supernatural beings and demons were common in ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian art.)
13. The lion-headed, eagle-footed Assyrian-Babylonian demon of disease and evil, holding the mace of wounding and the dagger of killing. After a wall carving at Nineveh.
The Devils main objective is to tempt man and lead him away from God. Two of the most famous temptations are illustrated in this chapter: the temptation of Jesus in the desert of Palestine and that of St. Anthony in the desert of Egypt. But every human being must be assailed, and the Devil needs many demon helpers, such as Belial and Beelzebub, who go about the world spreading disease and madness (by possessing their victims) and instigating all sorts of vice. The vice-ridden may not even be aware that they are playing into the Devils hands: witness the vain woman who looks into her mirror expecting to see her face and seessomething else.
14. Amam (the devourer), demon of the nether world. After an ancient Egyptian papyrus illustration.
15. A Cynocephalus baboon as demon of the nether world. After an illustration in an ancient Egyptian papyrus.
16. The fight of the City of Satan (Babylon) against the City of God (Syon). From Aurelius Augustinus De Trinitate. De Civitate Dei, printed by Johann Amerbach, Basle, 1489.
17. The demon Belial appearing with his entourage of four lesser demons before King Solomon.
18. The demon Belial presenting his credentials to Solomon. From Jacobus de Teramos Das Buch Belial , printed at Augsburg, 1473.
19. The demon Belial dancing before King Solomon.
20. The demon Belial returning to the gates of Hell. From Jacobus de Teramos Das Buch Belial , printed at Augsburg, 1473.
21. Demon causing women to gossip during Mass.
22. Demons keeping score on the babbling of women during Mass. From Geoffroy de Latour Landrys Ritter vom Turn , printed by Michael Furter, Basle, 1493.
23. Demon carrying off a child promised to the Devil.
24. The Demon of Vanity and the coquette.
From Geoffroy de Latour Landrys Ritter vom Turn , printed by Michael Furter, Basle, 1493.
25. The Demon of Greed and the treasurehunting fool.
26. The Demon of Pride and the conceited woman.
From Sebastian Brants Navis Stultifera (Ship of Fools), printed by Bergman de Olpe, Basle, 1494; attributed to Albrecht Drer.
27. The author tempted by the Devil, from Johannes Lichtenbergers Prognosticatio, printed by Bartholomaeus Kistler, Strassburg, 1500.
28. The Lord and Satan vying for the soul of man, who is navigating the ocean of vices and sin. From Le grant kalendrier et compost des Bergiers, printed by Nicolas Le Rouge, Troyes, 1496.
29. The demons of Antichrist, from La vie de lAntechrist, showing the seducing of men by bribe and the destruction of sacred images. Printed at Lyons, late fifteenth century.
30. The Temptation of St. Anthony. After a design by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1506.
31. Angels defending the Citadel of Heaven against the hordes of the Devil. From Celifodinas Scripturae Thesaurus , printed by B. M. Lantzberg, Leipzig, 1510.
32. Grotesque representation of the demons of the Seven Deadly Sins. Designed by Hans Baldung Grien, from the Buch Granatapfel, 1511.
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