Research Catalog

Title

Lectures / F. Saxl.

Author

Saxl, Fritz, 1890-1948

Publication

London, Warburg Institute, University of London, 1957.

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Warburg Institute

Description

2 v. plates.; 27 cm.

Subject

Art

Genre/Form

Lectures.

Note

• "Most of the lectures in this volume were written between 1933 and 1948. They cover the last fifteen years of Saxl's life, the whole period during which he worked in England, and they played an essential part in his effort to make the Warbug Institute known in England."--Foreword.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: v. 1, p. 359-365.

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• committed to retain

Contents

I.Continuity and Variation in the Meaning of Images -- Mithras—The History of an Indo-European Divinity I -- Mithras—The History of an Indo-European Divinity II -- Pagan and Jewish Elements in Early Christian Sculpture -- Macrocosm and Microcosm in Mediaeval Pictures -- The Revival of Late Antique Astrology -- The Belief in Stars in the Twelfth Century -- Illuminated Science Manuscripts in England -- Science and Art in the Italian Renaissance -- The Troy Romance in French and Italian Art -- Petrarch in Venice -- Jacopo Bellini and Mantegna as Antiquarians -- Titian and Pietro Aretino -- The Appartamento Borgia -- The Villa Famesina -- The Capitol during the Renaissance—A Symbol of the Imperial Idea -- A Humanist Dreamland -- Illustrated Mediaeval Encyclopaedias—l. The Classical Heritage -- Illustrated Mediaeval Encyclopaedias—2. The Christian Transformation -- Illustrated Pamphlets of the Reformation -- Dürer and the Reformation -- Holbein and the Reformation -- Elsheimer and Italy -- Rembrandt and Classical Antiquity -- Velasquez and Philip IV -- Warburg's Visit to New Mexico -- Three "Florentines": Herbert Home, A. Warburg, Jacques Mesnil -- Why Art History? -- II. List of Illustrations -- Plates 1—243.

LCCN

a^^58002602^

OCLC

• 593179
• SCSB-10011619

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Harvard Library