Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art: The Witches and Femmes Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien

by Yvonne Owens

Hans Baldung Grien, the most famous apprentice and close friend of German artist Albrecht D rer, was known for his unique and highly eroticised images of witches. In paintings and woodcut prints, he gave powerful visual expression to late medieval tropes and stereotypes, such as the poison maiden, venomous virgin, the Fall of Man, 'death and the maiden' and other motifs and eschatological themes, which mingled abject and erotic qualities in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784537292
• ISBN13: 9781784537296
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 312 Pages