Edgar Wind

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1900 – 1971

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Who was Edgar Wind?

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.

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Born
May 14, 1900
Berlin
Nationality
  • Germany
Died
Sep 12, 1971
London

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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