The Eloquence of Symbols: Studies in Humanist Art

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• Title Page iii
• Editor's Preface v
• Note to the Preface of the revised edition vi
• Contents vii
• List of Illustrations ix
• Diagrams within the Text xii
• A Biographical Memoir xiii
• I Θει + ̑ος Άόβος (laws, Ii, 671d) on Plato's Philosophy of Art 1
• Ii · Warburg's Concept of Kulturwissenschaft and Its Meaning for Aesthetics 21
• Iii · Donatello's Judith a Symbol of Sanctimonia 37
• Iv · the Subject of Botticelli's Derelitta 39
• V. the Revival of Origen 42
• Vi · Platonic Justice Designed by Raphael 56
• Vii · an Allegorical Portrait by Grünewald Albrecht Von Brandenburg as St. Erasmus 58
• Viii · Aenigma Termini the Emblem of Erasmus of Rotterdam 77
• Ix · the Christian Democritus 83

• Title Page iii
• Editor's Preface v
• Note to the Preface of the revised edition vi
• Contents vii
• List of Illustrations ix
• Diagrams within the Text xii
• A Biographical Memoir xiii
• I Θει + ̑ος Άόβος (laws, Ii, 671d) on Plato's Philosophy of Art 1
• Ii · Warburg's Concept of Kulturwissenschaft and Its Meaning for Aesthetics 21
• Iii · Donatello's Judith a Symbol of Sanctimonia 37
• Iv · the Subject of Botticelli's Derelitta 39
• V. the Revival of Origen 42
• Vi · Platonic Justice Designed by Raphael 56
• Vii · an Allegorical Portrait by Grünewald Albrecht Von Brandenburg as St. Erasmus 58
• Viii · Aenigma Termini the Emblem of Erasmus of Rotterdam 77
• Ix · the Christian Democritus 83
• X · Platonic Tyranny and the Renaissance Fortuna - On Ficino's Reading of Laws, IV, 709A-712A 86
• Xi · Traditional Religion and Modern Art 95
• Xii · Yeats and Raphael the Dead Child on a Dolphin 103
• Appendix On a recent Biography of Warburg 106
• The Published Writings of Edgar Wind 115
• Index 131
• Plates 145