GERMAN

Die Bildsprache Michelangelos

By Edgar Wind (editor); Pablo Schneider (editor)

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2016
ISBN
9783110472141, 9783110471281
DOI
10.1515/9783110472141
Language
german
Format
EPUB
Filesize
13 MB (13510726 bytes)
Pages
128\0
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-07-26 05:41:01

Description

Art historian and philosopher Edgar Wind completed his monograph on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling frescos in 1936. Adopting a methodological approach developed by Aby Warburg, who was Wind’s colleague in Hamburg, he analyzed Michelangelo’s choice of themes. Although the work was complete, it was never published, and is presented now for the first time in printed form, accompanied by an extensive editor’s postscript. A groundbreaking study Supplemented with historical photographs of the Sistine Chapel

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