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Looking at texts from colonial narratives to court masques, trial records to folktales, and Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, this book shows how the witch acts as a carrier for fears, desires and fantasies both now and in the early modern period.

Witchcraft --- Witchcraft in literature --- Witchcraft in art --- History.

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"This collection of sixteen essays deals with the role of magic, religion and witchcraft in European culture, 1450-1650, and the critical role of the visual in that culture. It covers the relationship of humanism and magic; the intersection of religious ritual, orthodoxy and power; the discursive links between the visual language of witchcraft and contemporary anxieties about sexuality and savagery. The introductory chapter urges us to exorcise our tendency to reduce historical experiences of the demonic to forms of unreason created in a distant past. Only then can we understand the role of the demonic in our historical definition of the self and the other. Richly illustrated with 112 images, the book will interest historians and art historians."--BOOK JACKET.

Hekserij in de kunst --- Sorcellerie dans l'art --- Witchcraft in art --- Witchcraft --- Magic --- Witchcraft in art. --- History. --- 133 --- -Witchcraft --- -Witchcraft in art --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Spells --- Occulte wetenschappen. Geheime leer. Occultisme --- History --- Mali (Empire) --- Tombouctou (Mali) --- Songhai Empire. --- 133 Occulte wetenschappen. Geheime leer. Occultisme --- Mali (Empire). --- Europe --- Witchcraft - Europe - History. --- Magic - Europe - History.

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For centuries the witch has been a powerful figure in the European imagination; but the creation of this figure has been hidden from our view. Charles Zika’s groundbreaking study investigates how the visual image of the witch was created in late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe. He charts the development of the witch as a new visual subject, showing how the traditional imagery of magic and sorcery of medieval Europe was transformed into the sensationalist depictions of witches in the pamphlets and prints of the sixteenth century. This book shows how artists and printers across the period developed key visual codes for witchcraft, such as the cauldron and the riding of animals. It demonstrates how influential these were in creating a new iconography for representing witchcraft, incorporating themes such as the power of female sexuality, male fantasy, moral reform, divine providence and punishment, the superstitions of non-Christian peoples and the cannibalism of the New World. Lavishly illustrated and encompassing in its approach, The Appearance of Witchcraft is the first systematic study of the visual representation of witchcraft in the later fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It will give the reader a unique insight into how the image of the witch evolved in the early modern world.

Esoteric sciences --- Graphic arts --- witches --- religions [belief systems, cultures] --- magic --- Iconography --- witchcraft --- Art --- anno 1500-1599 --- Europe --- Witchcraft in art. --- Art, European --- Witchcraft --- Sorcellerie dans l'art --- Art européen --- Sorcellerie --- History. --- Histoire --- History --- Art européen --- prints [visual works] --- Witchcraft in art --- Black art (Witchcraft) --- Sorcery --- Occultism --- Wicca --- Art, Modern --- European art --- Nouveaux réalistes (Group of artists) --- Zaj (Group of artists) --- magic [occult science]

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Esoteric sciences --- Iconography --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- witches --- heksensabbat --- Hekserij in de kunst --- Sorcellerie dans l'art --- Witchcraft in art --- Witchcraft in art. --- Art, European. --- Art, Medieval --- Art, Renaissance --- Art européen --- Art médiéval --- Art de la Renaissance --- 291.33 --- Art, European --- Art, Modern --- European art --- Nouveaux réalistes (Group of artists) --- Zaj (Group of artists) --- Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- 291.33 Directe invloed op de goddelijke wil: hekserij; bezweringen; magie, toverij --- Art européen --- Art médiéval --- Art, Northern European --- Northern European art --- Art [European ] --- Europe [Northern ] --- Art [Medieval ] --- Art [Renaissance ] --- Art [Modern ] --- 17th-18th centuries --- Art, Northern European.

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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.

witch, magic, demonology, imagination, early modern art. --- History of art. --- Paintings and painting. --- HISTORY / Renaissance. --- ART / History / Baroque & Rococo. --- ART / History / Renaissance. --- History of art and design styles: c 1600 to c 1800. --- History of art and design styles: c 1400 to c 1600. --- Witchcraft in art. --- Witches in art. --- Art, Italian --- Witchcraft --- History