"The Carcass", Agostino Veneziano after Rafaël, after Battista Dossi, c. 1520
Agostino Veneziano (Italian, c. 1490-1540)
Engraving, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
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The witch, riding on a gigantic carcass, is a superb example of a ‘copy–paste’ approach in printmaking. The naked sorceress was copied from an engraving by the famous Albrecht Dürer, who, in turn, had borrowed it from the figure of Envy in the print by Andrea Mantegna (see elsewhere in this gallery). As a depiction of a hideous fantasy, this certainly rivals Mantegna’s print.
Allegorical representation with a procession with a witch on a carriage, made from the carcass of a large monstrous creature, which is being pulled by two naked men. Two other naked men lift the back of the carcass. Under the carcass various monstrous creatures. In the foreground on the left a boy with a trumpet on the back of a billy goat. On the left a group of ducks flying away.
-Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
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