Angeles y Demonios / Angels and Demons

by Rosa Giorgi

Presents paintings, frescoes, sculptures, and other works of art depicting heavenly and demoniac figures and explains the origins and role of purgatory and paradise, the riders of the Apocalypse, diabolic possession, and related topics.

380 pages, Paperback

Published June 30, 2004

About the author

Rosa Giorgi is an art historian who specializes in iconography and iconology. Her most recent publications include books on Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio, Diego Velázquez, and El Greco. She is also the author of Saints in Art (2002) and Angels and Demons in Art (2003). In addition to writing, she teaches at the Catholic University and the Brera Picture Gallery in Milan, where she lives.