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by DAILY ICONOGRAPHY

MARTINA PALIANI

DEVILS

The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun

William Blake, The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, ca. 1803–1805 – Brooklyn Museum

L’Ange Dechu

Alexandre Cabanel, L’Ange Dechu, 1847, Musée Fabre, Montpellier

Le Génie du Mal

Guillaume Geefs, Le Génie du Mal, 1848, Cathédrale Saint-Paul, Liège

Lucifer

Franz Stuck, Lucifer, 1890, National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia

Lucifer - Paradise Lost

Gustave Doré, Lucifer, Illustration for John Milton’s “Paradise Lost“, 1866

he spiritual descent of Lucifer into Satan

Gustave Doré, The spiritual descent of Lucifer into Satan, Illustration for John Milton's Paradise Lost, 1866

Lucifer and the snake

Gustave Doré, Lucifer and the snake, Illustration for John Milton’s “Paradise Lost“ by Gustave Doré, 1866

Satan

Jean-Jacques Feuchère, Satan, 1833, Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris

Detail of Satan from The Temptation of Christ

Master L. Cz. (anonymous German Engraver), Detail of Satan from The Temptation of Christ, ca. 1500., Scan of PD artwork reproduced in book

The devil selling indulgences

The devil selling indulgences, from Jenský kodex, between 1490 and 1510

Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council

John Martin, Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council, 1824, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Satan from Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia

Satan from Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia. Proemio : comento di Christophoro Landino fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri, printed in 1491, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge

Illustration of the tale of the Hand of Satan

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Illustration of the tale of the Hand of Satan, from Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1899

LVCIFER

Cornelis Galle su disegno di Ludovico Cigoli, LVCIFER, 1590-1600 ca., Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Satan semant l'ivraie

Félicien Rops, Satan semant l'ivraie, 1882, Musèe provincial Felicien Rops

Lucifer versus the Lord

Mihály Zichy, Lucifer versus the Lord, 19th century, Landor. Zichy Mihaly. Budapest

Lucifer waiting for the Last Judgement

Unknown author, Lucifer waiting for the Last Judgement Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur f. 067v 1450-1470

The Adversary!: 'Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenc

Joseph Noel Paton, The Adversary!: 'Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched', 1876

The Fall of the Rebel Angels

Master of the Rebel Angels, The Fall of the Rebel Angels, 1340-45, Louvre

WITCHES

The history of witches and wizards

Image 1, from The history of witches and wizards, 1720, Wellcome Collection

Picturesque Russia

Mikhail Osipovich Mikeshin, Відьма/The Witch, from “Picturesque Russia”, volume 5 ( «Little Russia, Podolia, and Volhynia. Part 1: Poltava, Chernigov, Volhynia, Podolia, Kharkov, and Kiev Provinces.)

Witches’ Sabbath

Francisco Goya, Witches’ Sabbath, 1795, Museo Lázaro Galdiano

La femme chauve-souris

Albert Pénot, La femme chauve-souris, 1890, Private collection

The history of witches and wizards, 1720,

Image 2, from The history of witches and wizards, 1720, Wellcome Collection

Witch from the Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae

Witch from the Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae, 1775 ca

Scenes of witchcraft: Night

Salvator Rosa, Scenes of witchcraft: Night, 1645-49, Cleveland Museum of Art

Scenes of witchcraft: Evening

Salvator Rosa, Scenes of witchcraft: Evening, 1645-49, Cleveland Museum of Art

Scene of Witchcraft: Morning

Salvator Rosa, Scene of Witchcraft: Morning, 1645-1649, Cleveland Museum of Art

Scene of Witchcraft: Day

Salvator Rosa, Scene of Witchcraft: Day, 1645-1649, Cleveland Museum of Art

Witches at their incantations

Salvator Rosa, Witches at their incantations, 1646, London National Gallery

The Witches’ Sabbath

Salvator Rosa, The Witches’ Sabbath, Private collection

The witch

Salvator Rosa, The witch, 1640-1649, private collection, Milan

The witches’ Sabbath

Salvator Rosa, The witches’ Sabbath, 1640-49, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Witch riding backwards on a goat

Albrecht Dürer, Witch riding backwards on a goat, 1501, British Museum

A witch

Salvator Rosa, A witch, 1646, Capitoline Museum, Rome

Witches' Sabbath

Francisco Goya, Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat), 1821-23, Museo del Prado

Linda Maestra

AUTHOR: Goya Francisco

TITLE: Linda maestra
SERIES: Los Caprichos
COLLECTION: Di Marino

DESCRIPTION: This print belongs to the first edition of the Caprichos series, consisting of eighty prints. On February 6, 1799, in the Diario de Madrid, the sale of a "collection of prints on the themes of caprichos, invented and engraved by Mr. Francisco Goya" was announced. The prints could be purchased at Calle Desengaño 1 (Madrid), where the artist lived at the time. Goya probably made three hundred copies of this first edition, withdrawing them from sale on February 19 of the same year for fear that the Spanish Inquisition would censor the work.
In 1803, to save the Caprichos, Goya gave the original matrices to King Charles IV along with 240 copies of this series, destined for the Royal Calcography, in exchange for an artistic pension for his son, Javier. Later, the steel matrices (220 x 153 mm) entered the collection of the National Calcography (Madrid).
The scenes depicted in the series of Caprichos are inspired by the drawings that Goya made during his stay in Andalusia (Sanlúcar Album, also known as Album A), in Madrid (Madrid Album or Album B) and in the series of drawings known as Sueños, all preserved in the Prado Museum. This graphic series is set between the end of the ancien régime in Spain and the development of the new currents of liberal bourgeois thought. The series is conceived as a satire on the vices of man and the immorality of human conduct. Goya's criticism extends to all sectors of society, without exception. In the Caprichos the themes represented are: deception in relationships between men and women, courtship, prostitution and marriages of convenience; satire on rudeness and ignorance, the fruit of the concerns of the Enlightenment, false beliefs and superstitions due to ignorance, with witchcraft being the supreme manifestation of lack of education and superstition; the condemnation of the vices rooted in society, especially in the clergy; and, finally, the protest against the abuses of power of the higher social classes, the exploitation of the people and the injustice of the law. A copy of the same print can be found in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid), in the Biblioteca Nacional de España (Madrid) in the Museo Lázaro Galdiano (Madrid), in the Museo del Prado (Madrid) and in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris).