Publisher's Synopsis
This volume examines how and why a vast range of 15th- and early 16th-century European images of Christ's infancy allude either to his death or to the devil, and sometimes to both. Written as an essay on interpretation, the book addresses the bottomless ingenuity with which artists worked to embody two central yet ultimately elusive ideas: the sacrifice for which the Incarnation was necessary and evil posied to thwart the scheme of salvation.
