seated satan Published February 7, 2016-at dimensions 300 × 163 in What the Devil? —–or——- What? The Devil! Images navigation Previous Next Demon Seated by Mikhail Vrubel (1890), an illustration to the Russian romantic poem demon byMikhail Lermontov. Vrubel views this demon as "a spirit, not so much evil as suffering and sorrowing, but in all that a powerful spirit... a majestic spirit".