La Celestina · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La Celestina
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Spain
Description: This image depicts Celestina as an old lady, seated on what appears to be some sort of bench. She is known to use people's greed, love, and sexual appetites to manipulate them. A skull is placed on the shelf behind her, and beside it an owl is perched.
Image Creator: Cecilio Plá (Lithographer)
Type: StillImage; Lithography
Identifier: mta:11658
Language: spa
Source Name: La Celestina: Tragicomedia de Calisto y Malibea
Parent Collection: 1899 Vigo Plá; 1899 Vigo Plá
Image: mta_11658_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Celestina
Subject: Spanish romances; Celestina (Fictitious character); Older women; Owls; Skulls