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Eve, 1911 John Collier

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Eve by Solomon Joseph Solomon (1908)

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Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - The Succubus, 1855

Illustration from Honoré de Balzac's "Les Cent Contes drolatiques/Droll Stories"

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The Temptation of St. Anthony (detail) - Sebastiano Ricci, 1706.

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Leonor Fini (1907-1996) - Les Sorcières (The Witches), 1959

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At the beginning of the 17th century, a book of black magic was published, attributed to the mythical Faust and known by the title Höllenzwang. The library in Weimar owned a manuscript of this text, which Goethe was aware of. In 1949 Martin Bodmer was able to purchase a similar manuscript. This document, which is difficult to date, is written in cabalistic signs and, according to a German gloss, contains a series of magic spells for exorcists, which can be used in particular to call up the seven evil spirits.

Origin: Cologny? (Switzerland)

Period: middle of 18th century

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Illustration of Dante's Inferno, Canto 17 (1587) Giovanni Stradano

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Paul Romano

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From Sekira, 1906.

I’ve curated over a thousand favorite vintage imps and demons.

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Kinuko Craft, Baba Yaga (detail)

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Eugène Delaplanche, Eve après le péché, 1869

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Joan of Arc, pictured in a 1917 hair care manual

Proper Care of the Hair and Scalp, Amant Henry Ohmann-Dumesnil (Saint Louis: University Medical Press, 1917)

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Anger (Ira), from the series The Seven Deadly Sins. 1558. Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1918 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/383071

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Karol Bak - Medusa

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Lucretia (between 1525 and 1550)

By Lucas Cranach the Elder