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Edgar Wind

Born

in Berlin, Germany

May 14, 1900

Died

September 12, 1971

Genre

Art

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Edgar Wind was a German-born British interdisciplinary art historian, specializing in iconology in the Renaissance era. He was a member of the school of art historians associated with Aby Warburg and the Warburg Institute as well as the first Professor of art history at Oxford University. He is most well known for his research in allegory and the use of pagan mythology during the 15th and 16th centuries, and for his book on the subject, Pagan Mysteries of the Renaissance.

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	Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance 4.24 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 1958 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Art and Anarchy by Edgar Wind, Duckworth Company Staff, Duckworth Co., Ltd. 4.05 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1963 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eloquence of Symbols: Studies in Humanist Art by Edgar Wind, Jaynie Anderson (Editor), Hugh Lloyd-Jones 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1984 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hume and the Heroic Portrait: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Imagery by Edgar Wind, Jaynie Anderson (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Experiment and Metaphysics really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Religious Symbolism of Michelangelo: The Sistine Ceiling by Edgar Wind, Elizabeth Sears (Editor) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ästhetischer und kunstwissenschaftlicher Gegenstand. Ein Beitrag zur Methodologie der Kunstgeschichte by Edgar Wind, Pablo Schneider (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bellini's Feast Of The Gods: A Study In Venetian Humanism it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heilige Furcht und andere Schriften zum Verhältnis von Kunst und by Edgar Wind, John Michael Krois (Editor), Roberto Ohrt (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Giorgiones "Tempesta" with Comments on Giorgiones Poetic Allegories liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The commonplace may be understood as a reduction of the exceptional, but the exceptional cannot be understood by magnifying the commonplace.”
― Edgar Wind

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