Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · New York : H. Holt and Company · leaf 112
traceable in the eighth century. In this picture wehave an early example of those which have since becomefamiliar in old Bibles. Pietro dOrvieto painted this ser-pent-woman in his finest fresco, at Pisa. Perhaps in noother picture has the genius of Michael Angelo been morefelicitous than in that on… … Fig. 2.—Temptation and Expulsion (Michsel Aiigelo, Sistine Chapel). in harmony with the earlier myth that Lilith should be ofgreater beauty than Eve. An artist and poet of our own time (Rossetti) has byboth of his arts celebrated the fatal beauty of Lilith.His Lilith, bringing soft sleep,…
Demonology · Mythology · Occultism
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