Witches in the work of Hieronymus Bosch
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https://doi.org/10.1344/Materia2016.10-11.8Keywords:
Hieronymus Bosch, witchcraft, demonology, Flemish miniatures, Hans Baldung Grien, witches’ flight, ointments, diabolical vapoursAbstract
During the passage between the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries, belief in the witches’ sect spread througout the central and southern parts of Europe, provoking intense intellectual debates fuelled by the new demonological reflections and triggering a series of judicial trials presided by both lay and ecclesiastical courts against the alleged members of that diabolical collusion. This phenomenon would also have its repercussions within the artistic domain, with the emergence and spread of an iconography and a visual language for witchcraft developed mostly by Flemish and South German artists. The region where Hieronymus Bosch was born and lived appears to have been fully integrated into this dynamic, a fact that invites us to examine the presence of some elements from this new witchcraft iconography in the works of the painter from ’s-Hertogenbosch.References
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