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Jacopo Ligozzi, Gerbil, 1580-1600, 260 x 341 mm (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)
Hans Memling, Hell c. 1485 Oil on wood (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg) #Halloween
Bartolomeo Bimbi, Pumpkin, late 17th century, Oil on canvas (Museo Botanico, Florence)
This 1607 painting of a Witches' Sabbath by by Frans Francken II (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) has so many diabolical things going on it's hard to know where to begin.
Desengano dos peccadores (Disabusal of Sinners) (1724), by Jesuit priest Alexandre Périer shows the torments of Hell in vivid detail, portraying tortures tailored for each of the senses and for each type of sin. So, um, repent!
October 13: Gian Jacopo Caraglio after Rosso Fiorentino, Fury, c. 1525, engraving on laid paper, sheet: 25.1 x 18.7 cm (9 7/8 x 7 3/8 in.), National Gallery of Art, Washington
Milanese author, historian, and member of the order of Jesuati, Paolo Morigia (1525-1604) painted by Fede Galizia. When Galizia was just twelve years old, the art theorist Gian Paolo Lomazzo wrote that “this girl dedicates herself to imitate the most extraordinary of our art."
Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri), Diana and her Nymphs, 1616-17 (Galleria Borghese, Rome)