The Witches

I was inspired to write this entry by reading the introduction to Mona Chollet’s book “Sorcières, la puissance invaincue des femmes” (no English translation as yet, I was reading in Polish). I was particularly surprised by a short passage on the works of several sixteenth-century artists from northern Europe. „The hate obsession of some painters…

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Rembrandt & women

Quite recently I was at a lecture accompanying the 36xRembrandt exhibition at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. One of its main highlights is the Girl in the Painting’s Frame – a work that has not yet received the world fame it deserves. In the aforementioned lecture, the pose of the girl was described as seductive…

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