The Eloquence of Symbols: Studies in Humanist Art

by Edgar Wind, Jaynie Anderson (Editor), Hugh Lloyd-Jones

One of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, Edgar Wind (1900-1971) was the first Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford. His astonishing familiarity with art and its history was allied with a knowledge of the ancient classics, of literature in several languages, and of philosophy and aesthetics. This first volume of his selected papers, published in 1983, is now reprinted in paperback for the first time with a revised and updated bibliography.

Genres: Art

172 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

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.