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An exploration of philosophical and mystical sources of iconography in Renaissance art.

Edgar Wind was one of the most distinguished art historians and philosophers of the twentieth century. He made crucial contributions to debates on aesthetics and on the interdisciplinary nature of cultural history involving such other leading figures as Ernst Cassirer and Erwin Panofsky. It is not always realised, however, that his early thinking was moulded by a concern with the German philosophical tradition, culminating in the analysis of the meaning and function of scientific experimentation and proof. This first edition in English of Edgar Wind's important work Das Experiment und die...

Art historian and philosopher Edgar Wind completed his monograph on Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling frescos in 1936. Adopting a methodological approach developed by Aby Warburg, who was Wind's colleague in Hamburg, he analyzed Michelangelo's choice of themes. Although the work was complete, it was never published, and is presented now for the first time in printed form, accompanied by an extensive editor's postscript.

Will works of the imagination ever regain the power they once had to challenge and mould society and the individual? This was the question posed by Edgar Wind's influential Reith Lectures delivered in 1960 and later expanded into his book Art and Anarchy. The book examines the various forces that have fashioned the modern view of the art, from mechanization and fear of intellect to connoisseurship and--perhaps the fundamental weakness of our age--the dispassionate acceptance of art. In the course of his discussion, Wind surveyed a wide range of topics in the history of painting,...