Art & Antiques

Northern Art in the South

NCANNY IMAGES of the apocalypse, the gates of hell, witches and magi will surely resonate with visitors to the Gibbes Museum in Charleston, S.C., this month—possibly because Halloween is coming up, possibly because we live in chaotic times that are just about as obsessed with the end of the world as 15th-century Europe was. Troubled times produced troubling artworks, but they were also visually stunning and intellectually rich, speaking a symbolic language deeply rooted in religion and mythology. “Charleston Collects: Devotion and Fantasy, Witchcraft and the World’s End” (October 9 through June 27, 2021) presents around 27 works (about one-third paintings

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