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  1. Art and witchcraft in early modern Italy
    Author: Tal, Guy
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

    "The figure of the witch is familiar from the work of early modern German, Dutch, and Flemish artists, but much less so in the work of their Italian counterparts. Art and Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy seeks to explore the ways in which... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
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    2024 C 1707
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    "The figure of the witch is familiar from the work of early modern German, Dutch, and Flemish artists, but much less so in the work of their Italian counterparts. Art and Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy seeks to explore the ways in which representations of witchcraft emerged from and coincided with the main cultural currents and artistic climate of an epoch chiefly celebrated for its humanistic and rational approaches. Through an in-depth examination of a panoply of arresting paintings, engravings, and drawings--variously portraying a hag-ridden colossal phallus, a horror-stricken necromancer dodging the devil's scrabbling claws, and a nocturnal procession presided over by an infanticidal crone--Guy Tal offers new ways of reading witchcraft images through and beyond conventional iconography. Artists such as Parmigianino, Alessandro Allori, Leonello Spada, and Angelo Caroselli effected visual commentaries on demonological notions that engaged their audience in a tantalizing experience of interpretation"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9789463722599
    Series: Monsters and Marvels. Alterity in the Medieval and early modern Worlds
    Subjects: Witchcraft in art; Witches in art; Art; Witchcraft; Sorcellerie dans l'art; Art - Italie - Histoire; Sorcellerie - Italie - Histoire; Sorcières dans l'art; History of art and design styles: c 1400 to c 1600; History of art and design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; ART / History / Renaissance; ART / History / Baroque & Rococo; HISTORY / Renaissance; Paintings and painting; History of art
    Scope: 375 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-361) and index