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Restorers uncover demon in a 1789 painting – and reveal the decline of superstition in the Age of Reason

By Jenny Graham, Associate Professor in Art History, University of Plymouth
The Enlightenment saw science and rational thought replace the religious superstitions of the previous century, and demons became metaphors for the human struggle between good and evil.The Conversation


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