Art and Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy Hardback
by Guy Tal
Part of the Monsters and Marvels. Alterity in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds series
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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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:376 pages, 79 Illustrations, color; 32 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
- Publication Date:09/01/2024
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- ISBN:9789463722599
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:376 pages, 79 Illustrations, color; 32 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
- Publication Date:09/01/2024
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- ISBN:9789463722599