EditorialBas-de-page scene of how a devoted clerk called up the Devil by the means of necromancy in order to help him win over the girl he loved. Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?); between 1310 and 1320. Source: Ro...
EditorialBas-de-page scene of how a devoted clerk called up the Devil by the means of necromancy in order to help him win over the girl he loved. Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?); between 1310 and 1320. Source: Ro...
EditorialThe killing of Prince Rupert's dog, named 'Boy', during the battle of Marston Moor, during the English civil war. A dog's elegy, or Rupert's tears for the late defeat at Marston-Moore ... London, July 27, 1644. A woodcut showing a witch, a cavalier and...
EditorialA scene of necromancy: a woman bearing a vessel, a turbaned man, and a soldier look toward a pedestal upon which a skull and limb bone are burning, a bearded male figure's face is visible behind the group, from the series 'Turns of fantasy' (Scherzi di...