How do you depict the embodiment of evil? Satan and his minions have taken very different guises throughout the history of art, from the conspicuous villains of the Renaissance, to modernity’s insidious social stains. A new exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center brings together some of the most powerful, unusual and bizarre. Click on any image to open the slideshow.
Click here for the curator’s introduction…
‘Sympathy for the Devil: Satan, Sin, and the Underworld’ is at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, from 20 August–1 December.
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