Sujet

A scene of witchcraft. Plate 4 from: Scherzi di Fantasia (Sktches of Fantasy), 1743-50. Creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

Légende

A scene of witchcraft. Plate 4 from: Scherzi di Fantasia (Sktches of Fantasy), 1743-50. The aged, central bearded figure, almost certainly a magician from his appearance, is pointing out to two much younger men (apprentices?) a decapitated head of a luckless sacrificial or condemned figure that is about to burn on a pyre. A crowd of onlookers are in the background. Two evil creatures flank the group, an owl to the left of the group, and a monstrously fat cat on a tomb-like structure.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A24_231

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

52,0Mo (2,6Mo) / 31,0cm x 42,0cm / 3663 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors portrait animal Italy Italian people male group job man men head arts bird birds country art pointing guy occupation beard museum color menace bird of prey owl death location century gesturing profession print bearded magician concept sacrifice series B&W full length menacing hand gesture facial hair full-length apprentice raptor witchcraft beheaded macabre decapitated Colour elderly man sacrificing black & white black and white background people B W rococo white and black 18th century decapitation Eighteenth Century etched beheading etching pyre sacrificial sinister outside etching portrait old man old men young man young men Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Giambattista Tiepolo Rococo era Tiepolo Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Giambattista Tiepoli Giovanni Battista 1740s Heritage Art Scherzi di Fantasia Sketches of Fantasy Giovanni Tiepolo Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa