Antique Engraving Print, Margaret supplicating the Mater Dolorosa, 1820

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Antique Engraving Print, Margaret supplicating the Mater Dolorosa, 1820, credit Antiche Curiosità©

Antique Engraving Print, Margaret supplicating the Mater Dolorosa, 1820, cm. 34 x 25, engraved by Henry Moses, published by Boosey & Sons 4 Broad Street, 1 July, 1820. Rare.

Faust, also called Faustus, or Doctor Faustus, hero of one of the most durable legends in Western folklore and literature, the story of a German necromancer or astrologer who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. There was a historical Faust, indeed perhaps two, one of whom more than once alluded to the devil as his Schwager, or crony. One or both died about 1540, leaving a tangled legend of sorcery and alchemy, astrology and soothsaying, studies theological and diabolical, necromancy and, indeed, sodomy. Contemporary references indicate that he was widely traveled and fairly well known, but all observers testify to his evil reputation. Contemporary humanist scholars scoffed at his magical feats as petty and fraudulent, but he was taken seriously by the Lutheran clergy, among them Martin Luther and Philippe Melanchthon. Ironically, the relatively obscure Faust came to be preserved in legend as the representative magician of the age that produced such occultists and seers as Paracelsus, Nostradamus, and Agrippa von Nettesheim. (…)

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