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The Deceptive Angels Paulo Martins Oliveira ____________________________________________________________ “And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light” 2 Corinthians 11:14
In order to encode surreptitious messages and criticisms in artworks, various painters used different kinds of devices, including the concealment of devilish creatures in their compositions. Thus, several pictures are actually elegant pieces of symbolic engineering, sometimes meaning the exact opposite of the official interpretation. A simple example can be found in Philip II offering Fernando to Victory, painted by Titian (1572-75).
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