Witches
Subtitle: exploring the iconography of the sorceress and enchantress
By: Lorenzo Lorenzi ; translated by Ursula Creagh.
Publisher: Centro Di
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Firenze
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9788870384307
Subjects: Witches in art; Witchcraft in art; Art, European
Notes: Translation of: La strega.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-140) and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins of the myth. The Classical prototype; title: The meeting of opposites during the Middle Ages; title: Daughter of Venus. The image of the witch in the fifteenth century; title: The witch of the renaissance: one image with two persona; title: The modern age: the image of the Venus terribilis; title: The nineteenth century and the return of Medusa.