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mixed media on thin cardboard
26 x 30 cm
Original illustration made by Ventura, published in the book "Portrait of a Witch" by Mondadori in 1991. << The portraits in this book are not those of a hideous old woman, nor even those of a dark lady of disturbing beauty; they are the portraits of an ordinary girl, a peasant teenager with a raw and innocent beauty, captured in the humble and banal occupations of her daily life. What does she have to do with witches, as we are accustomed to imagining them? With the portraits of Caterina Farcigli, Piero Ventura intends to answer this question, visually demonstrating what scholars have long been gleaning from the documents and transcripts of witchcraft trials, but which the common mentality still struggles to accept. >>
26 x 30 cm
Original illustration made by Ventura, published in the book "Portrait of a Witch" by Mondadori in 1991. << The portraits in this book are not those of a hideous old woman, nor even those of a dark lady of disturbing beauty; they are the portraits of an ordinary girl, a peasant teenager with a raw and innocent beauty, captured in the humble and banal occupations of her daily life. What does she have to do with witches, as we are accustomed to imagining them? With the portraits of Caterina Farcigli, Piero Ventura intends to answer this question, visually demonstrating what scholars have long been gleaning from the documents and transcripts of witchcraft trials, but which the common mentality still struggles to accept. >>
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