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      The Witches of Dürer and Hans Baldung Grien*

      Renaissance Quarterly
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          This study seeks to demonstrate that the timing, subject, and audience for the art of Dürer and Hans Baldung Grien all argue against the view that the witches in their prints and drawings were a reaction to actual witch-hunts, trials, or malevolent treatises such as the Malleus maleficiarum. The witch craze did not gain momentum until late in the sixteenth century while the witches of Dürer and Hans Baldung Grien belong to an earlier era. They are more plausible as a response to humanist interest in the poetry and satire of the classical world, and are better understood as poetic constructions created to serve artistic goals and satisfy a humanist audience.

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                Journal
                Renaissance Quarterly
                Renaiss. Q.
                JSTOR
                0034-4338
                1935-0236
                2000
                November 20 2018
                2000
                : 53
                : 2
                : 333-401
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                10.2307/2901872
                a55af005-50f4-4ce8-8021-80f82d5fbbfe
                © 2000

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