Art, Culture, and Mentality in Renaissance Society
The Meaning of Hans Baldung Grien's Bewitched Groom (1544)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10412824 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dale Hoak (William & Mary, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 488-510 |
| Publication date | 1985-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4338 • E-ISSN: 1935-0236 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2861081 |
| OpenAlex | W2333516618 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 11 |
For the study of early modern society, Renaissance art often provides an extraordinary means of exploring visually the values and assumptions, attitudes, and modes of perception of those who inhabited, mentally and materially, the world of traditional, preindustrial Europe. The work of Hans Baldung dit Grien (1484/85-1545), a Swabian painter, illustrator, and designer of stained glass, illuminates one of the most familiar and yet least understood aspects of this world, the mentality of those who believed that some women were capable of influencing a man's sexual nature by means of witchcraft.In a series of prints and drawings executed between 1510 and 1544, Baldung portrayed various aspects of the alleged activities of witches. As contributions to the iconography of witchcraft, these Hexenbilder were without artistic precedent
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Iconography · Literature · Meaning (existential · Painting · The Renaissance · Financial Crisis of the 21st Century · History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
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Baldung's Bewitched Groom Revisited
Thomas More
Who Were the Witches? The Social Roles of the Accused in the European Witch Trials
The Social Place of a German Renaissance Artist
The Great European Witch-Hunts
Materials toward a History of Witchcraft
Witchcraft in France and Switzerland
La sodomie à l'époque moderne en Suisse romande
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1993 - 2015 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |