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Instead of a female procuress, the artist Hans Meid shows a procurer offering her protegée to another man.

Costumbrist engraving to accompany the article in which the character is identified as a celestina of that time period.

Celestina looking for ingredients for her conjurations

Originally published in 1575 by Juan de Lequerica.

Illustrated edition.The cover features a fragment of the painting Two Women at a Window (c. 1660) by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.

A black and red image of Celestina with her head uncovered despite her typical depiction in religious garb. Alternatively, it is possible that this is a depiction of the author, Fernando de Rojas.

Water colours with figurines for a performance of Mother Celestina's dust (Los polvos de la madre Celestina), by Apelles Mestres. There is data missing about this performance.

This painting depicts the biblical story of the prodigal son in the house of prostitutes. The prodigal son appears in a bedroom with a young woman. The young woman hands over some jewellery to an older woman, who acts as a procuress.

8-act play
Adaptation by Paul Achard
Compagnie d’Art Dramatique
Animator: Jean Darcante
Company administrator: Georges Reitnei
Decoration: R.-Ph. Couaillier
Costumes: Rosine Delamare

Cast:
Jean Darcante – Calisto
Michel Bouquet –…

8-act play.
Adaptation by Paul Achard
Compagnie d’Art Dramatique
Animator: Jean Darcante
Company administrator: Georges Reitnei
Decoration: R.-Ph. Couaillier
Costumes: Rosine Delamare

Cast:
Michel Gudin – Sereno
Jean Darcante –…

Representation of La Celestina, tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea ("La Celestina, tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea") directed by Gustavo Meza at the Teatro del Ángel (Chile).Adaptation in 4 acts: José Ricardo MoralesCreative team:Costumes-…

Older woman argues using her fingers to count. The word "amor" is visible in the background. Musical instrument and dog.

Woman with a Lapdog, Accompanied by a Maidservant (probably Bathsheba with King David’s Letter)

The image shows two women in an outdoor scene, Vertumnus and Pomona. The young woman (Pomona) is shown with one of her breasts uncovered and picking fruit as she looks at the old woman. The old woman, in this painting representing Vertumnus, is…

In the image two figures appear, a young woman and an old woman, in an arch surrounded by fruits and vegetables. The old woman appears with her head covered and pointing to one of the vegetables for the young woman. Although the painting itself may…

Taken from the add: "Signed and dated 1959. Titled on the back.
Oil on canvas, 120 x 90 cm. Period framing.
On the back label from the Sao Paulo Biennial (Brazil), where it was exhibited in 1959."

Symbolic portrait of Celestina with the moon and what appear to be flames or a tree.

Celestina walking surrounded by mythological beings. Note Picasso's influence on the minotaur, Melibea in the background and garden with trees that remind us of the cypresses from the cementery.

Melibea in her room surrounded by cupids. Note the similarity with the paintings of the Anunciación.

Naked woman, perhaps Melibea, abducted on a billy goat so it could be Celestina; inspired perhaps in the Abduction of Europa.

Drawing of the gallant scene between Calisto and Melibea, probably their encounter in the garden.

Drawing of Calisto playing the lute in his room with a sleeping dog in the foreground and the city seen through the window.

Drawing of naked Melibea bathing in a pond while a bird draws near.

Drawing of Calisto playing the lute while Pármeno and Sempronio speak in the back.

Drawing of Calisto bowing, probably before the arrival of Celestina to his house.

Drawing of Calisto on horseback while the falcon is flying.

Drawing of Calisto and Melibea in the garden.

Colour image of Melibea with long hair. Beneath the image can be read: "La soberana hermosura" ("The sovereign beauty").

Colour image of Melibea with the falcon. Underneath can be read: "De cuyo amor preso comenzóle de hablar" ("About whose imprisoned love he began to speak to him about").

Drawing of Melibea as a locked up damsel that is sewing or embroidering with a cat at her feet.

Drawing of Celestina in her house with the string and a cat at her feet.

Drawing of Celestina at the table casting a spell and the spirits becoming visible.

Drawing of Celestina on the balcony and Celestina behind speaking to her.

Drawing of Celestina walking down the street and a young man, Sempronio, waiting for her leaning on a wall.

Coloured image of Sempronio hugging Elicia. Underneath can be read: "No derribes la mesa" ("Don't knock down the table").

Drawing of a group of older women.

Drawing of Calisto playing the lute in his bed and Celestina speaking to him. Dog on the floor and Pármeno listening in the background.

Calisto and Melibea kissing in the garden under the moon. Underneath can be read: "¡Oh mi vida y mi amor!" ("Oh my life and my love!").

A skeleton representing death approaches a dove or bird on a branch.

Drawing of Celestina approaching Areúsa, naked, in the bed, while Pármeno watches from behind a curtain.

Drawing of Areúsa bent over and naked.

Drawing of Areúsa and Pármeno getting out of bed the next day.

Drawing of the banquet at Celestina's house.

Drawing of a couple hugging and ascending to the top floor of Celestina's house, while Pármeno is downstairs, kneeling??

Drawing of Pármeno and Sempronio speaking at the table at Celestina's house, from whose ceiling hang hams and charcuterie.

Drawing of Melibea seated at the window of her room playing with a cat.

Colour image of Pármeno approaching Areúsa's bed. She is naked. Underneath can be read: "Que quiero ver par cuanto eres" ("I want to see how much you are worth").

Celestina and Calisto walk down the street accompanied by Pármeno and Sempronio, who are following them. View from the city and superimposed part of the text written by hand.

Drawing of Celestina with the Church of the Magdalena in the background and handwritten superimposed text of her words in which she desires to go to the Church of the Magdalena to meet with Calisto.

Calisto and Melibea's meeting behind the garden door. Pármeno and Sempronio in the background.

Calisto and Melibea, half naked, hugging in the garden, with the moon and the tree in the background.

Drawing of dead Celestina and of Elicia crying, plus a series of female characters in the background.

Drawing of a body covered with a sheet or a shroud that is supposedly dead Celestina.

Drawing of Calisto and Melibea hugging in the garden.

Drawing of Elicia arriving to Areúsa's house dressed in mourning. Areúsa appears almost naked.

Drawing of a man (Sosia or Tristán) who with a candle in his hand illuminates a fallen corpse beside the wall who could be Calisto after his fall.

Conversation between Pleberio and Alisa inside the house.

Drawing of Melibea playing the lute in her bed.

Coloured image of naked Melibea and Calisto in the garden. Underneath can be read: "¡Oh dulce sobresalto!" ("Oh sweet shock!").

Drawing of Areúsa coaxing Sosia while Elicia listens behind the curtain.

Drawing of a naked woman changing clothes. She is perhaps Elicia or Areúsa who is changing from mourning to more cheerful clothes.

Drawing of Elicia and Areúsa standing before Centurio, who appears almost as an avenging angel.

Centurio gives Traso el Cojo and another ruffian instructions.

Drawing of Calisto dead in his servants' arms. Calisto's figure is curiously nude.

Coloured image of Melibea's suicide that transforms to rose gradually as she falls.

Symbolic drawing that is difficult to interpret. It could be Calisto's ghost hugging Melibea while a character transformed into a tree could be Celestina's ghost.

Symbolic drawing that could be the spirits of Calisto and Melibea.

Drawing of Pleberio's sobs with mourners in the background.

Capital letter O that frames a naked Melibea and angels.

Naked man or woman reading a book beside a tree and falcon.

Drawing of death in skeleton form floating beside the ladder in the garden.

Drawing of a young, naked woman between two billy goats.

Adaptation: Dorin Mihailescu
Choreography : Dana Coseru
Scenery: Sandu Maftei
Design: Iuliana Maftei

Cast:
Elena Petrican – Celestina
Simon Salca jr. – Calisto
Petronela Ene – Melibea
Constantin Petrican – Pleberio
Dana Tomita – Alisa…

The cover features two figures: a man playing a guitar and a women with flowers. These illustrations resemble figures from old playing cards. The two figures are repeated and inverted, so that there are four figures in total.

The cover is a red reproduction of the cover of the Valencia edition of 1514.

Bilingual edition: Spanish Sign Language/ Castilian.

Engraving depicting a procuress on a donkey, whipped while wearing a crest. An inscription in Italian reads: The procuress whipped while wearing a crest on her head, Bologna, June 1696.

Engraving by Jean Mohler that accompanies the title page and acts as a frontispieceof the book La Célestine, Tragi-Comédie de Calixte et Mélibéeby Fernando De Rojas, translated into French by A. Germond de Lavigne, published by Les Compagnons du…

Man with prostitute on his arm and behind is the matchmaker.

Although it is a clear case of Vanitas, with the skull, the mirror and the soap bubbles, the character of the woman who combs the young woman's hair wears an orientalizing headdress common in portraits of procuresses in Dutch paintings at the time.…

Two people appear on the cover, on the right an old woman with her head covered following the Celestinesque tradition and holding a club and on the left a young man handing a sack of coins to the old woman. By the title of the work it is understood…

Stage: Mischa ScandellaMusical commentary: Piera BorellaDancer: Alessandra VianelloCostumes: Casa d'Arte G.B. Placco - PadovaStage director: G.A. RossiCast:Mario Bardella- CalistoSara Momo- MelibeaLuciano Montini- PleberioMargherita Penzo-…

Stage and clothing: Roberto da Re
Music: Franco Baroni

Cast:
Antonio Franchini- Calisto
Anna Mariacher- Melibea
Arnaldo Momo- Pleberio
Linda Cosma- Alisa
Sara Momo- Celestina
Mario Esposito- Pármeno
Gianni Guidetti- Sempronio
Fabio…

Cast:
Andrea Marinuzzi- Calisto
Lidia Fersuoch- Melibea
Arnaldo Kirsch- Pleberio
Lidia Cosma- Alisa
Sara Momo- Celestina
Fabio Momo- Pármeno
Mauro Pagan- Sempronio
Mario Gabbiato- Sosia
Laura Rioda- Lucrecia
Girgia Reberschak-…

Oil on canvas 29'5 x 23'5 cm. Three people at the light of a candle. They may be Celestina, Areúsa and Pármeno, or other characters

Production ofEl Candil: Teatro de Cámara and Ensayo de Talavera de la ReinaRecord of representation in CDAEM, Spanish Theater: https://www.teatro.es/estrenos-teatro/la-celestina-2323078

Facsimile edition of the 1554 Zaragoza edition. Only 100 copies printed. The cover is new.

A cover in black, white, and purple tones that depicts a male figure with his arms outstretched, moving towards what appear to be two figures, grasping a letter in his right hand.

Representation directed by José Ricardo Morales of the Teatro experimental of the Universidad de Chile. Cutting from the official program. Contains an illustrated representation and the cast. Technical team: Raúl Aliaga, Props; Juan Cruz, Makeup;…

The subject of the greedy or usurer old woman is indirectly related to the subject of the procuress, since it uses the same physical prototype.See painting:Vieja usurera, de Ribera (1638).Here the presence of a second character evokes Parmeno's…

A dropped capital 'T'. The background is yellow.

A coloured reproduction of the cover of the Seville edition of 1523 by Juan Bautista Pedrezano, which depicts Calisto, Melibea, Lucrecia, Sempronio, and Celestina. Curiously, this edition shows Calisto's falcon as well as a hound and horse,…

Authorship: Vicent Vila Costume: Rocío Cabedo Lightning: Natzari Lorente Staging: Pep Sellés Production: Teatre de la Caixeta Distribution: Teresa de Juan Cast: Naus Agulló, José Blasco, Yolanda García and Juansa LloretRecord of representation in…

Celestina y Melibea An adaptation to Flamenco dance of the work La Celestina by Fernando Rojas. With strategy through fables and spells that Celestina uses against Melibea, she manages to make her fall in love with Calisto, thus ending the story…

An engraving depicting events that occurred in central London

Illustration of a young woman assaulted by a man, cover of Coloma, Jesús R.'s novel, in the series Los contemporáneos.