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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.

History of art and design styles: c 1400 to c 1600. --- History of art and design styles: c 1600 to c 1800. --- ART / History / Renaissance. --- ART / History / Baroque & Rococo. --- HISTORY / Renaissance. --- Paintings and painting. --- History of art. --- History, Art History, and Archaeology --- Art and Material Culture --- ART & MAT --- Early Modern Studies --- EARLY MOD --- Medieval Studies --- MEDIEVAL --- witch, magic, demonology, imagination, early modern art --- Witches in art. --- Sorcières --- Witchcraft in art. --- Sorcellerie --- Art --- Witchcraft --- Art, Italian. --- Art. --- Folklore. --- Dans l'art. --- History. --- Histoire. --- Italy. --- Esoteric sciences --- Iconography --- magic [occult science] --- witchcraft --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Italy --- Art, Italian --- Sorcellerie dans l'art. --- Art italien --- HIS