The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity: Contributions to the Cultural History of the European Renaissance

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Bibliophile, scholar, founder of what would become the Warburg Institute, Aby Warburg (1866-1929) ranks as one of the most original and brilliant art historians of this century. Warburg looked beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation, and in particular he contemplated the meaning of the re-use of ancient motifs. His scholarship--published in German in 1932 in two volumes encompassing all of his published essays along with manuscript notes in his working copies--has had a crucial influence on the work of twentieth-century art historians. Now, with the publication of this new translation of The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity, these seminal volumes are available in their entirety in English for the first time. Cover Contents Introduction Acknowledgments Note on the Text Editorial Foreword VOLUME ONE Antiquity in Florentine Bourgeois Culture Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Spring (1893) Sandro Botticelli (1898) The Picture Chronicle of a Florentine Goldsmith (1899) On Imprese Amorose in the Earliest Florentine Engravings (1905) The Art of Portraiture and the Florentine Bourgeoisie (1902) Francesco Sassetti's Last Injunctions to His Sons (1907) Matteo degli Strozzi (1893) The Commencement of Building Work at the Palazzo Medici(1908) An Astronomical Map in the Old Sacristy of San Lorenzo in Florence (1911) The Emergence of the Antique as a Stylistic Ideal in Early Renaissance Painting (1914) Exchanges between Florentine and Flemish Culture Artistic Exchanges between North and South in the Fifteenth Century (1905) Flemish Art and the Florentine Early Renaissance (1902) Flemish and Florentine Art in Lorenzo de' Medici's Circle around 1480 (1901) Rogier van der Weyden's Entombment in the Uffizi (1903) On a Florentine Painting That Ought to Be in the Exhibition of French Primitives (1904) Peasants at Work in Burgundian Tapestries (1907) Antiquity and Modern Life in Renaissance Pageantry Two Scenes from King Maximilian's Captivity in Bruges on a Sheet of Sketches by the So-Called Master of the Housebook (1911) Airship and Submarine in the Medieval Imagination (1913) Piero della Francesca's Battle of Constantine in the Watercolor Copy by Johann Anton Ramboux (1912) Medicean Pageantry at the Valois Court in the Flemish Tapestries of the Galleria degli Uffizi (1927) The Theatrical Costumes for the Intermedi of 1589 (1895) Contributions to the Cultural History of the Florentine Quattrocento (1929) VOLUME TWO Italian Antiquity in Germany Durer and Italian Antiquity(1905) The Gods of Antiquity and the Early Renaissance in Southern and Northern Europe (1908) Church and Court Art at Landshut (1909) The Olympian Gods as Astral Daemons Italian Art and International Astrology in the Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara (1912) On Images of Planetary Deities in the Low German Almanac of 1519 (1908) Pagan-Antique Prophecy in Words and Images in the Age of Luther (1920) Astrology under Oriental Influence (1926) Occasional Writings on Public Cultural Issues American Chapbooks (1897) The Mural Paintings in Hamburg City Hall (1910) Art Exhibitions at the Volksheim (1907) A Specialized Heraldic Library (1913) A Newly Discovered Fresco by Andrea del Castagno (1899) Speech on the Opening of the Kunsthistorisches Institut at the Palazzo Guadagni, Florence, 15 October 1927 (1927) In Memory of Robert Munzel (1918) The Problem In Between (1918) List of Illustrations Bibliography Index