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  2. Devil in the arts and popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Jazz was often called the Devil's music by its critics in the 1920s. [3]The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" (1968) features Mick Jagger speaking as the Devil. "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" (1979) by the Charlie Daniels Band was the first modern popular song to feature a battle between the devil and a musician.

  3. History of the nude in art - Wikipedia

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    At the male level, the representation of erect phalli in isolated form or in full body was also a sign of fertility, as in the Cerne Abbas Giant (Dorset, England). [7] In cave paintings—especially those developed in the French-Cantabrian and Levantine —hunting scenes are common, or scenes of rites and dances, where the human figure ...

  4. Saint Michael Vanquishing Satan - Wikipedia

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    The eye follows the lines of the body from the tip of the spear towards the head of the serpent. Raphael also skillfully appropriates the style in which Michelangelo would portray the male nude. One specific technique, for which Michelangelo is famous, that is found in much of Raphael's art, is the twisted pose as is depicted here.

  5. Category:Demons in popular culture - Wikipedia

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  6. Shoulder angel - Wikipedia

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    A guardian angel in a 19th-century print. The shoulder angel often uses the iconography of a traditional angel, with wings, a robe, a halo, and sometimes a harp.The shoulder devil likewise usually looks like a traditional devil with reddish skin, horns, barbed tail, a trident, and in some cases, cloven hooves.

  7. List of occult symbols - Wikipedia

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    The goat-headed Baphomet image seen here is a 19th-century drawing made by Eliphas Levi as a metaphorical symbol from Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie. It was not originally created as a Satanic symbol or a deity. See also: Sigil of Baphomet and Statue of Baphomet. Black Sun: Nazi occultism and later the neo-Nazi movement

  8. Shaitan - Wikipedia

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    In his response to the question, how devils, who are conceptualized as creatures of a subtile body (i.e. either fallen angels or evil jinn) in early kalām, can run through the body of humans, he explains that it is not the devil himself, but the effects of the devil (athar ash-shayṭān) that run through human body and influence the soul.

  9. List of artists who created paintings and drawings for use in ...

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    In order for artwork to appear in film or television, filmmakers must go through a process of acquiring permission from artists, their estates or whoever the owner of the photographic rights may be, lest they become embroiled in a potential lawsuit, such as was the case for Warner Bros. with sculptor Frederick Hart following the reproduction of his piece Ex Nihilo in Devil's Advocate, as well ...