• Edgar Wind (/wɪnd/; 14 May 1900 – 12 September 1971) was a British interdisciplinary art historian, specializing in iconology in the Renaissance era....
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    indefatigable finder of allegories drawing on Renaissance Neoplatonism, Edgar Wind, had to admit that in this case "an undisguised hedonism had at last dispelled...
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    Tononi, “Aby Warburg, Edgar Wind, and the Concept of Kulturwissenschaft: Reflections on Imagery, Symbols, and Expression”, The Edgar Wind Journal, Vol. 2 (2022)...
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    interpretations, of which two different versions have been articulated by Edgar Wind and Ernst Gombrich, to be the key to understanding the painting. Botticelli...
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    Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his...
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    which Botticelli certainly knew. From the left they are identified by Edgar Wind as Voluptas, Castitas, and Pulchritudo (Pleasure, Chastity and Beauty)...
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    University Ernst Cassirer used it, and his students Erwin Panofsky and Edgar Wind worked there. The original Warburg Library building in Hamburg is now...
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  • Edmund De Wind (1883–1918), Canadian/Irish war hero Edgar Wind (1900–1971), British historian Hans Wind (1919–1995), World War II flying ace Wind (band)...
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    Membership Award for Outstanding Contribution to Visual Culture from the Edgar Wind Society, University of Oxford. Made Honorary Professor of Sculpture of...
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    in the flayed skin of Saint Bartholomew (see the illustration above). Edgar Wind saw this as "a prayer for redemption, that through the ugliness the outward...
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    was the Warburg Institute in London, where scholars like Frances Yates, Edgar Wind, Ernst Cassirer, and D. P. Walker began arguing that esoteric thought...
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  • and the teacher of Degas studied under Ingres. Meanwhile art historian Edgar Wind encouraged him to become a 'Warburgian artist'. His more complex compositions...
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    horror of carnal sin combined with a lofty Platonic concept of love." Edgar Wind postulated that the ten medallions represented violations of the Ten Commandments...
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  • activist Cornelis Wind (1867–1911), Dutch physicist Diana Wind (born 1957), Dutch art historian Dorothy Wind, American baseball player Edgar Wind (1900–1971)...
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    Renaissance Neoplatonism. As with the other mythologies, Ernst Gombrich and Edgar Wind were the first to analyse the painting in these terms. The couple's relationship...
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    Impossibilities", Folklore, 100 (2): 201–217, doi:10.1080/0015587X.1989.9715766 Edgar Wind (1943), "Milking the Bull and the He-Goat", Journal of the Warburg and...
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    Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English filmmaker. He is known for his fast-paced and kinetic, satirical genre films, which feature extensive...
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    the Shaping of the Canon of Finiteness in the Italian Renaissance”, The Edgar Wind Journal, Vol. 1 (2021), pp. 86–127. Tononi, Fabio, “Aesthetic Response...
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  • Tononi, Fabio, “Aby Warburg and Edgar Wind on the Biology of Images: Empathy, Collective Memory and the Engram”, in Edgar Wind: Art and Embodiment, ed. by...
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  • discourse. Art and Anarchy, a collection of lectures by the art historian Edgar Wind discusses the tension between art and societal norms. He argues true artistic...
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  • was the Warburg Institute in London, where scholars like Frances Yates, Edgar Wind, Ernst Cassier and D. P. Walker began arguing that esoteric thought had...
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  • 1-34. Revised and expanded version of ‘Ein echter Warburgianer: Kitaj, Edgar Wind, Ernst Gombrich und das Warburg Institute,’ catalogue-essay in the Kitaj...
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    trough/sarcophagus do not yet have a generally agreed reading. They were described by Edgar Wind as "A man is being scourged, a woman dragged by the hair, and an unbridled...
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    serpents. In 1948, art historian Edgar Wind suggested instead that this image was based on Ovid's Fasti Book 3. Wind contended that this was the true...
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    MMA Provenance section, same webpage as Christiansen For example by Edgar Wind in Wind, 143 note 7 (first published in 1958) McIver, 20 note 7 Wikimedia...
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    technique of dissociation that was as extreme as the Remy de Gourmont." – Edgar Wind, Art and Anarchy, Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft No. 1163, Frankfurt...
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    Individual and the Universe 1959 Peter Medawar, The Future of Man 1960 Edgar Wind, Art and Anarchy 1961 Margery Perham, The Colonial Reckoning 1962 George...
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  • iconology. It was soon established and attracted brilliant students such as Edgar Wind, Hugo Buchthal, Adolf Katzenellenbogen, Walter Horn, Charles de Tolnay...
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    claimed victory over the chaotic and impulsive sound of the pipes." For Edgar Wind the contest determined "the relative powers of Dionysian darkness and...
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    file? See media help. "The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for...
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