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mixed media on cardboard
36,5 x 51 cm
Original illustration made by Ventura published in the book "Portrait of a witch" by Mondadori in 1991. << The portraits that make up this book are not those of a horrid old woman nor those of a dark lady with disturbing beauty, they are the portraits of an ordinary girl, a peasant teenager with a raw and innocent beauty, caught in the humble and banal occupations of her daily life. What does it have to do with witches, as we are used to imagining them? With the portraits of Caterina Farcigli Piero Ventura intends to answer this question, visually showing what scholars, for a long time now, have gleaned from the documents and reports of witchcraft trials, but which the common mentality still finds it difficult to accept. >>
36,5 x 51 cm
Original illustration made by Ventura published in the book "Portrait of a witch" by Mondadori in 1991. << The portraits that make up this book are not those of a horrid old woman nor those of a dark lady with disturbing beauty, they are the portraits of an ordinary girl, a peasant teenager with a raw and innocent beauty, caught in the humble and banal occupations of her daily life. What does it have to do with witches, as we are used to imagining them? With the portraits of Caterina Farcigli Piero Ventura intends to answer this question, visually showing what scholars, for a long time now, have gleaned from the documents and reports of witchcraft trials, but which the common mentality still finds it difficult to accept. >>