![]() ![]() Baldung's bold use of foreshortening (depicting objects as shorter than they are in reality to create a dramatic perspective) seems designed to disconcert rather than convince the viewer and creates a general sense of eeriness and unease in the composition. The scene is apparently set inside a stable where a groom lies on the ground with his comb and pitchfork, his horse stands in its stall looking back towards the viewer with a sinister glare, and a bare-breasted woman leans through the window brandishing a flaming torch. Although it is known as The Bewitched Groom, the print was not given a title by the artist himself and its ambiguous subject matter has puzzled generations of scholars. This woodcut by the German artist Hans Baldung (called Grien) is a highly enigmatic image from Renaissance art. ![]()
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