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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.