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Baldung and his mentor Albrecht Dürer created several images throughout their careers that dealt with this theme of witches. Notable works include Dürer's The Four Witches (1497) and Witch Riding Backwards On A Goat (1500), as well as Baldung's New Year's Greeting with Three Witches (1514) and The Bewitched Groom (1544). [2]
Hans was born in Schwäbisch Gmünd (formerly Gmünd in Germany), a small free city of the Empire, part of the East Württemberg region in former Swabia, Germany, in the year 1484 or 1485. [2] Baldung was the son of Johann Baldung, a university-educated jurist, who held the office of legal adviser to the bishop of Strasbourg (Albert of Bavaria ...
The Witches' Sabbath by Hans Baldung (1510) Witches' Sabbath by Frans Francken (1606) Witches' Sabbath in Roman Ruins by Jacob van Swanenburgh (1608) As a recent translation from the original Spanish El aquelarre to the English title Witches' Sabbath (1798) and Witches' Sabbath or The Great He-Goat (1823) both works by Francisco Goya
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 ...
[a] The number of witch trials in Europe known to have ended in executions is around 12,000. [70] There were an estimated 110,000 witchcraft trials in Europe between 1450 and 1750, with half of the cases seeing the accused being executed. [71] Witch hunts began to increase first in southern France and Switzerland, during the 14th and 15th ...
Although these were described by benandanti as spirit journeys, they nevertheless stressed the reality of such experiences, believing that they were real occurrences. [8]On Thursdays between the Ember days, periods of fasting for the Catholic Church, the benandanti claimed their spirits would leave their bodies at night in the form of small animals.
The Seven Ages of Woman is a painting (1544) by the German painter Hans Baldung, called Grien, executed in oil paint on linden wood. [1] It is part of the collection of the Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig, Germany.
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