The Witches of Durer and Hans Baldung Grien [*].(Critical Essay)

From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: June 22, 2000| Author: SULLIVAN, MARGARET A. | Copyright information

This study seeks to demonstrate that the timing, subject, and audience for the art of Durer and Hans Baldung Grien all argue against the view that the witches in their prints and drawings were a reaction to actual witch-hunts, trials, or malevolent treatises such as the Malleus maleficiarum. The witch craze did not gain momentum until late in the sixteenth century while the witches of Durer and Hans Baldung Grien belong so an earlier era. They are more plausible as a response to hu...

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