The Florentine Quattrocento and the art historiography in Aby Warburg

The work of Aby Warburg (1866-1929), dedicated above all to the great theme of the survival of the classical tradition in the European Renaissance, has gained notoriety in recent decades, including in Brazil. This article seeks an immersion in the work of this historian, circumscribing the discussio...

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Autor: Vieira Neto, Serzenando Alves
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP)
Repositorio:História da Historiografia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br:article/1302
Acceso en línea:https://www.historiadahistoriografia.com.br/revista/article/view/1302
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:German historiography
Renaissance
Florence
Historiografia alemã
Renascimento
Florença
Historiografía alemana
Renacimiento
Florencia
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Sumario:The work of Aby Warburg (1866-1929), dedicated above all to the great theme of the survival of the classical tradition in the European Renaissance, has gained notoriety in recent decades, including in Brazil. This article seeks an immersion in the work of this historian, circumscribing the discussion, in particular, to the thesis on Botticelli and some successive studies on the theme of the Florentine Quattrocento. We present a reading guided by an effort of contextualization, in which it is sought to identify Warburg’s main historiographical references, demonstrating his latent interlocution with the art historiography produced in the German-speaking world. In this sense, this article sustains that Warburg was clearly aligned with the tradition of “art history as cultural history”, present in the work of authors such as Jacob Burckhardt, Anton Springer and Hubert Janitschek.