Le Portrait du Diable. Proche et Moyen Orient depending on the place and

depending on the place and the time

as for Plato

terracottas and in particular the Iznik workshop which evolved towards polychromy

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Le Portrait du Diable. Proche et Moyen Orient depending on the place andTo punish a cardinal who disliked his Last Judgment, Michelangelo painted his portrait as Lucifer. This anecdote is noted by the art historian as revealing a major cultural evolution, namely the disappearance of the figure of the devil in painting. It demonstrates the singularity of humanist culture, which reintegrates diabolical categories within the human.