Comics in the Curriculum

Heroes and Antiheroes > Christ and Antichrist

(left) Madonna and Child Enthroned (c. 1123), Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

(right) Hell, with Satan and Antichrist enthroned (see lower right), Hortus Deliciarum (s. XII)

The Antichrist, a figure arising from imagery in the New Testament’s Book of Revelation, and influenced by the notion of Gog in the Hebrew Bible, is seen as both an enemy of God and his Church, and a creature whose coming signifies the End of Days.  The iconography of the Antichrist was often an inversion of that depicting Christ.

 

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