The Witches (Hans Baldung)
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The Witches is a chiaroscuro woodcut by German Renaissance artist Hans Baldung. This woodcut depicts witches preparing to travel to a Witches' Sabbath by using flying ointment. This is the first woodc
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Hans Baldung's monogram, "HB."
The gray-toned print.
Witches' Sabbath
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A Witches' Sabbath is a purported gathering of those believed to practice witchcraft and other rituals. The phrase became especially popular in the 20th century.
The Witches (Hans Baldung)
…titled The Witches' Sabbath) is a chiaroscuro woodcut by German Renaissance artist Hans Baldung. This woodcut depicts witches preparing to travel to a Witches' Sabbath by using flying ointment. This is the first woodcut produced by Baldung after leaving the studio of his mentor, Albrecht Dürer, and one of the first…
An illustration of Witches' Sabbath by Martin van Maële, from the 1911 edition of the book La Sorcière, by Jules Michelet
Sixteenth-century Swiss representation of Sabbath gathering from the chronicles of Johann Jakob Wick. Note the horned god seated on serpent-enlaced throne, witch performing the osculum infame upon a demon and another being aided by a demon to summon a storm from her cauldron, while others carouse and prepare magic potions
Index of a 1574 printing of Malleus Maleficarum
Witches' Sabbath. Johannes Praetorius: Blockes-Berges Verrichtung, Leipzig, 1668