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Mosaic of the Baptisterium of Florence, Giuseppe di Marcovaldo

A horned Satan devours the souls of the condemned through his three mouths (the other two, as serpents, coming out of his ears). This was a relatively popular motif in medieval and Renaissance art, and can be found also in Dante's Divine Comedy.

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