num_pages: 868
description: 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 hecontemplated 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 thepublication of this new translation of The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity , these seminal volumes are available in their entirety in English for the first time.
language: English
title: The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity: Contributions to the Cultural History of the European Renaissance
titlecomplete: The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity: Contributions to the Cultural History of the European Renaissance (Texts & Documents)
genres: History, Philosophy, German Literature, Art History, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 53
publisher: Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities