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This is the first woodcut produced by Baldung after leaving the studio of his mentor, Albrecht Dürer, and one of the first Renaissance images to depict both witches that fly and a Witches' Sabbath. Surrounded by human bones and animal familiars, a group of witches engage in naked revelry as they soar through the air and prepare food for the ...
Hans Baldung (1484 or 1485 – September 1545), called Hans Baldung Grien, [a] (being an early nickname, because of his predilection for the colour green), was a painter, printer, engraver, draftsman, and stained glass artist, who was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht Dürer and whose art belongs to both German Renaissance and Mannerism.
The Witches (Hans Baldung) Woman with a Raven at an Abyss; The Woman with the Spider's Web; Wordless novel; ... Anti-Nazi woodcut by Heinz Kiwitz 1933.jpg 285 × 348 ...
The Freiburg Altarpiece is an oil on wood panel altarpiece, created for the high altar of Frieburg Minster by the German Renaissance painter and printmaker, Hans Baldung Grien. [1] [2] The altarpiece is a polyptych with eleven panels created by Baldung and members of his studio. Baldung lived in Freiburg from 1512 to 1517 as he worked on the ...
The Four Horsemen c. 1496–98 by Albrecht Dürer, depicting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking.An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts.
Characteristic of Baldung is the proximity of the physical conception of female aging to sexuality, sin and death, which is already apparent in the nakedness of the women and the relentless display of the erotic appeal of youth in stark contrast to the physical deterioration of the female body in old age. [5]
A Discovery of Witches: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy, Book 1) A Discovery of Witches , the first book in the All Souls Trilogy , serves as the basis for season one of the TV show.
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