Landscape with a Scene of Witchcraft

1620-1644 (Baroque)

74.5 cm 63.2 cm

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A witch seated in a landscape and accompanied by a monster is casting spells with macabre objects, including a human skull. Tassi specialized in the representation of landscapes and architecture. In this painting, he has imagined the forest as a place beyond civilization where...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, prior to 1897 [mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 423]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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