ID - 125451598 TI - Art and witchcraft in early modern Italy PY - 2024 SN - 9789463722599 9463722599 9789048557363 PB - Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press DB - UniCat KW - History of art and design styles: c 1400 to c 1600. KW - History of art and design styles: c 1600 to c 1800. KW - ART / History / Renaissance. KW - ART / History / Baroque & Rococo. KW - HISTORY / Renaissance. KW - Paintings and painting. KW - History of art. KW - History, Art History, and Archaeology KW - Art and Material Culture KW - ART & MAT KW - Early Modern Studies KW - EARLY MOD KW - Medieval Studies KW - MEDIEVAL KW - witch, magic, demonology, imagination, early modern art KW - Witches in art. KW - Sorcières KW - Witchcraft in art. KW - Sorcellerie KW - Art KW - Witchcraft KW - Art, Italian. KW - Art. KW - Folklore. KW - Dans l'art. KW - History. KW - Histoire. KW - Italy. KW - Esoteric sciences KW - Iconography KW - magic [occult science] KW - witchcraft KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - anno 1600-1699 KW - Italy KW - Art, Italian KW - Sorcellerie dans l'art. KW - Art italien KW - HIS UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:125451598 AB - 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. ER -