Entrée principale:

Warburg, Aby, 1866-1929.

Titre et auteur:

The renewal of pagan antiquity : contributions to the cultural history of the European Renaissance / Aby Warburg ; introduction by Kurt W. Forster ; translation by David Britt.

Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1999.

Description:

859 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.

Série(s):

Texts & documents

Notes:
Originally published in 1932 as the first two volumes of a planned set of complete works.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 789-813) and index.
Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Spring -- Sandro Botticelli -- The picture chronicle of a Florentine goldsmith -- On Imprese amorose in the earliest Florentine engravings -- The art of portraiture and the Florentine bourgeoisie -- Francesco Sassetti's last injunctions to his sons -- Matteo degli Strozzi -- The commencement of building work at the Palazzo Medici -- An astronomical map in the Old Sacristy of San Lorenzo in Florence -- The emergence of the antique as a stylistic ideal in early Renaissance painting -- Artistic exchanges between North and South in the fifteenth century -- Flemish art and the Florentine early Renaissance -- Flemish and Florentine art in Lorenzo de' Medici's circle around 1480.
Rogier van der Weyden's Entombment in the Uffizi -- On a Florentine painting that ought to be in the exhibition of French primitives -- Peasants at work in Burgundian tapestries -- Two scenes from King Maximilian's captivity in Bruges on a sheet of sketches by the so-called Master of the Housebook -- Airship and submarine in the medieval imagination -- Piero della Francesca's Battle of Constantine in the watercolor copy by Johann Anton Ramboux -- Medicean pageantry at the Valois Court in the Flemish tapestries of the Galleria degli Uffizi -- The theatrical costumes for the Intermedi of 1589 -- Contributions to the cultural history of the Florentine quattrocento -- Dürer and Italian antiquity -- The gods of antiquity and the early Renaissance in Southern and Northern Europe -- Church and court art at Landshut.
Italian art and international astrology in the Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara -- On images of planetary deities in the Low German Almanac of 1519 -- Pagan-antique prophecy in words and images in the age of Luther -- Astrology under Oriental influence -- American Chapbooks -- The mural paintings in Hamburg City Hall -- Art exhibitions at the Volksheim -- A specialized heraldic library -- A newly discovered fresco by Andrea del Castagno -- Speech on the opening of the Kunsthistorisches Institut at the Palazzo Guadagni, Florence, 15 October 1927 -- In memory of Robert Münzel -- The problem in between.
Translated from the German.

Résumé:

A collection of essays by the art historian Aby Warburg, these essays look beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation: the conditions under which art was practised; its social and cultural contexts; and its conceivable historical meaning.

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ISBN:

0892365374
9780892365371

Sujet:

Art, Renaissance.
Art, Renaissance Classical influences.
Art de la Renaissance Influence ancienne.
Art de la Renaissance.
Beeldende kunsten.
Bouwkunst.
Het klassieke.
Renaissance.

Classification/genre:

Essay
Writings.
essays.
Essays
Essais.

Vedettes secondaires:

Texts & documents.

Collected writings

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Localisation: Bibliothèque main 211039
Cote: N7480.8.W253.A35 1999
Statut: Disponible