TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hults,Linda C.
TI  - The witch as muse: art, gender, and power in early modern Europe 
SN  - 0812238699
AV  - N8262.7 .H85 2005
U1  - 704.94913343 22
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania
KW  - Witches in art
KW  - Witchcraft in art
KW  - Gender identity in art
KW  - Art, European
KW  - 16th century
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Witchcraft
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-324) and index; 1; The witch as woman --; 2; The witch as muse --; 3; Inventing the witch in the European heartland : Durer and Baldung --; 4; Francken, the rhetoric of Habsburg power, and artistic invention in Antwerp --; 5; The art of describing delusion : De Gheyn and the Dutch variant --; 6; Rosa : witchcraft and the fiery painter --; 7; Between enlightenment and horror : Goya's reinvention of the witch
N2  - "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
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