Giotto

  • Blue, Black, Green, and Red: How Painters Colored Satan,

    Companion to Journal Entry XI, this field study carefully traces the Devil’s changing colors in Western art: the blue angel of Ravenna, medieval black, Giotto’s bluish giant, Dante’s three-faced Lucifer, Pacher’s green fiend, the red dragon of Revelation, and the red stage devil who later became an American advertising mascot.

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