The witch as muse : art, gender, and power in early modern Europe /
Hults, Linda C.,
The witch as muse : art, gender, and power in early modern Europe / Linda C. Hults. - xiv, 345 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-324) and index.
The witch as woman -- The witch as muse -- Inventing the witch in the European heartland : Durer and Baldung -- Francken, the rhetoric of Habsburg power, and artistic invention in Antwerp -- The art of describing delusion : De Gheyn and the Dutch variant -- Rosa : witchcraft and the fiery painter -- Between enlightenment and horror : Goya's reinvention of the witch. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
"Occult topics have long fascinated artists, and the subject of witches - their imagined bodies and fantastic rituals - was a popular one for painters and print-makers in early modern Europe. Focusing on several artists in depth. Linda C. Hults probes the historical and theoretical contexts of their work to examine the ways witches were depicted and the motivations for those depictions." "While studying the work of such artists as Durer, Baldung, Jacques de Gheyn II, and Goya. Hults discerns patterns suggesting that the imagery of witchcraft served as both an expression of artistic license and as a tool of self-promotion for the artists."--BOOK JACKET.
0812238699 9780812238693
2004063823
Witches in art
Witchcraft in art
Gender identity in art
Art, European--16th century
Art, European--17th century
Witchcraft--History--Europe--16th century.
Witchcraft--History--Europe--17th century.
N8262.7 / .H85 2005
704.94913343
The witch as muse : art, gender, and power in early modern Europe / Linda C. Hults. - xiv, 345 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-324) and index.
The witch as woman -- The witch as muse -- Inventing the witch in the European heartland : Durer and Baldung -- Francken, the rhetoric of Habsburg power, and artistic invention in Antwerp -- The art of describing delusion : De Gheyn and the Dutch variant -- Rosa : witchcraft and the fiery painter -- Between enlightenment and horror : Goya's reinvention of the witch. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
"Occult topics have long fascinated artists, and the subject of witches - their imagined bodies and fantastic rituals - was a popular one for painters and print-makers in early modern Europe. Focusing on several artists in depth. Linda C. Hults probes the historical and theoretical contexts of their work to examine the ways witches were depicted and the motivations for those depictions." "While studying the work of such artists as Durer, Baldung, Jacques de Gheyn II, and Goya. Hults discerns patterns suggesting that the imagery of witchcraft served as both an expression of artistic license and as a tool of self-promotion for the artists."--BOOK JACKET.
0812238699 9780812238693
2004063823
Witches in art
Witchcraft in art
Gender identity in art
Art, European--16th century
Art, European--17th century
Witchcraft--History--Europe--16th century.
Witchcraft--History--Europe--17th century.
N8262.7 / .H85 2005
704.94913343