Images - Part IV: Section B – Neighbors and Enemies

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1.	Hans Baldung Grien, Witches' Coven (1510) The belief in witches and the resulting persecution of witches were both widespread in the sixteenth century, especially after a treatise on the identification and persecution of witches entitled....
2.	Coronation of two Devils as a Sultan and the Pope (between 1544 and 1558) This woodcut is part of a series by the German artist Matthias Gerung (1500-1570). The woodcuts, which date from 1544-58, were designed as illustrations for the German translation of Swiss preacher....
3.	Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq (1557) Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq (1522-92) was the illegitimate son of a Flemish nobleman. Thanks to an excellent education at leading European universities, he was able to become a diplomat for the Habsburg....
4.	The Great Mosque (1570) Melchoir Lorck’s woodcut of the Süleymaniye mosque in Constantinople (Istanbul) attests to sixteenth-century Europeans’ interest in Ottoman civilization. Lorck, a well-educated and cosmopolitan artist,....
5.	Walpurgis Night (mid-17th century) According to a myth propagated during the era of witch persecution, witches and wizards gathered at certain places on Walpurgis Night, April 30. Arguably the most famous of these alleged meeting....
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