In the wake of a "Sacred that becomes Real", this book does justice to Warburg's observation that art history is a ghost story. Precisely has been yielding to a "fantasy" as here has been weaving a story that fits in its general terms the story of how Christ has been able to devernir in a sign of Orphic hope, and, secondly, how he could also fall back on the temptation to represent him in the form of an "automaton".