Description: Art and Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy, Hardcover by Tal, Guy, ISBN 9463722599, ISBN-13 9789463722599, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 1. Integrates images of witchcraft into the wide cultural context of early modern Italy. 2. Invests individual works with a thorough interpretation that reveals their complex meaning. 3. Offers a fresh perspective on images that have never been examined within the context of witchcraft. 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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Book Title: Art and Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy
Number of Pages: 376 Pages
Publication Name: Art and Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy
Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Europe / Renaissance, General, History / Baroque & Rococo, History / Renaissance
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2023
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 32.8 Oz
Item Length: 9.6 in
Author: Guy Tal
Subject Area: Art, History
Item Width: 7 in
Series: Monsters and Marvels. Alterity in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds Ser.
Format: Hardcover
