The renewal of pagan antiquity
Subtitle: contributions to the cultural history of the European Renaissance
By: Aby Warburg ; introduction by Kurt W. Forster ; translation by David Britt.
Series: Texts & documents
Publisher: Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities; Getty Publications
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Los Angeles, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 859
Subjects: Art, Renaissance
Other titles: Collected writings
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 789-813) and index.
Originally published in 1932 as the first two volumes of a planned set of complete works.