Title & Author:

German essays on art history / edited by Gert Schiff.

Publication:

New York : Continuum, 1988.

Description:

lxxii, 282 pages, 29 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Series:

The German library ; v. 79

Notes:
Spine title: Essays on art history.
"Published in cooperation with Deutsches Haus, New York University"--Title page verso.
German and English.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Gert Schiff -- On the imitation of the painting and sculpture of the Greeks / Johann Joachim Winckelmann -- Further description of several paintings in the Düsselforf Gallery / Wilhelm Heinse -- On German architecture ; Observations on the Laocoon / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Memorial to our worthy ancestor Albrecht Dürer / Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder -- From Descriptions of paintings from Paris and the Netherlands in the years 1802 to 1804 / Friedrich Schlegel -- On Giotto / Carl Friedrich von Rumohr -- Rembrandt's coloring and his color technique / Eduard Kolloff -- On Murillo / Jacob Burckhardt -- The classical triumphal arches in Italy / Heinrich Wölfflin -- The creative union of classical and northern elements in the high Renaissance / Theodor Hetzer -- On the historical unity in the universal evolution of art / Franz Wickhoff -- Late Roman or Oriental? / Alois Riegel -- On El Greco and mannerism / Max Dvořák -- On the history of art historiography- "The Gothic" / Julius von Schlosser -- Italian art and international astrology in the Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara / Aby Warburg -- Eros bound : concerning the genealogy of Rembrandt's Danae / Erwin Panofsky.
On El Greco and mannerism / Max Dvorak -- On the history of art historiography- "The Gothic" / Julius von Schlosser -- Italian art and international astrology in the Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara / Aby Warburg -- Eros bound : concerning the genealogy of Rembrandt's Danae / Erwin Panofsky.
English translations of German text.

ISBN:

0826403093 (pbk.)
9780826403094 (pbk.)
0826403085 (hard)
9780826403087 (hard)

Subject:

Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768.
Burckhardt, Jacob, 1818-1897.
Art.
Art Philosophy.
Art Historiography.
Art Philosophie.
Art Historiographie.
Kunstbetrachtung
Kunstgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
Art Histoire Allemagne.
Deutschland

Form/genre:

works of art.
Art
Œuvres d'art.

Added entries:

Schiff, Gert, editor.
Essays on art history.
German library ; v. 79.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 5952
Call No.: ID:87-B12559
Status: Available