Ruinen
Subtitle: Reflexionen über Gewalt, Chaos und Vergänglichkeit = Ruins : reflexions about violence, chaos and transience
By: Hans Dieter Schaal
Publisher: Edition Axel Menges
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stuttgart
Language: ger; eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9783936681468
Subjects: Ruined buildings; Ruine; Ruinenbau; Ruins in art; Kunst; Ruine <Motiv>
Other titles: Reflexionen über Gewalt, Chaos und Vergänglichkeit; Ruins :; Reflexions about violence, chaos and transience
Description: Chaos and anarchy represent the opposite pole to an ordered life. Nothing works any more, everything is devastated, everything is falling apart. City walls, buildings that once afforded protection, have fallen victim to the excesses of armed conflict. Infernal threats, ambushes, fiery rain and other catastrophes were described even in the Bible. Pillaging and plunder were part of everyday life in the Middle Ages. Cruel deeds familiar from the Bible, or those described by other people or experienced personally, inspired painters in the transitional period from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, and were picked out as a central theme in their pictures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Includes bibliographical references.

German and English.