Infinite Evilness 3/7
Demon doll Michael Pacher
by Pablo Lago
Based on Michael Pacher’s oil painting on wood ‘The Devil holding the Book of Vices to St. Augustine’, 1483 (Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany).
Based on Michael Pacher’s oil painting on wood ‘The Devil holding the Book of Vices to St. Augustine’, 1483 (Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany).
This painting narrates the legend of the devil walking through the city holding a large book that contained a list of all the sins of men. St. Augustine asked to see the page that concerns him.
He saw there only one sin: he had forgotten to say the whole prayers of it. He said the prayers devoutly, the sin disappeared and the devil ran away, saying that he was sorry he had shown the book to Saint Augustine.
Source: 'Art of the Devil' by Arturo Graf and Alte Pinakothek
Infinite Evilness is a collection that explores different artistic representations of Evil throughout history, transformed into matrioshkas or russian dolls.