Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-nr4z6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-07T12:50:30.186Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Edgar Wind. Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1958. 230 pp. in 4°+77 plates. $7.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Robert Klein*
Affiliation:
University of Paris
Get access

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Reviews
Copyright
Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1960

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 That leads him to some rather strange complications: thus a medallion in stucco in the Loges of the Vatican is supposed to represent the Neoplatonic triad of the Graces, but under ‘stoic’ disguise; and the ‘stoic Graces’ of Correggio would seemingly have undergone the influence of Neoplatonism, because the one on the left appears in a state ofraptio or of ‘conversion’ (p. 51 and n. 5, figs. 40 and 16).

2 Except for one observation, p. 152, on the expression of his face (‘the demonic Alcibiadic spirit’) and one other, p. 153, on the animal skin joined to the cluster of grapes.