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    • Guy Tal, Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Israel
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  • Publisher:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Publication date:
    22 February 2024
    30 November 2023
    ISBN:
    9789048557363
    9789463722599
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048557363
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    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, European History: General Interest, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Monsters and Marvels. Alterity in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
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Area Studies, European History: General Interest, History, European Studies
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Monsters and Marvels. Alterity in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
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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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