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Author Hults, Linda C.

Title The witch as muse : art, gender, and power in early modern Europe / Linda C. Hults
Published Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2005

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Description xiv, 345 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents 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
Summary "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
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-324) and index
Subject Witches in art.
Witchcraft in art.
Gender identity in art.
Art, European -- 16th century.
Art, European -- 17th century.
Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
Witchcraft -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
LC no. 2004063823
ISBN 0812238699 hardback