13 mai 2019
Oliver O'Donnell, « Edgar Wind: 'Hume and the Heroic Self-Portrait' », Bilderfahrzeuge, ID : 10670/1.tmeu2u
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Triumph of Truth, oil on canvas, 114 x 142 cm, Aberdeen University Collections, ca. 1774. (Source: Wikimedia Commons) On 11 July 1931, a young Edgar Wind gave a lecture at the Warburg Library in Hamburg titled “Humanitätsidee und heroisiertes Porträt in der englischen Kultur des 18. Jahrhunderts,” originally published in the Vorträge der Bibliothek Warburg in 1932. Archival records here in London reveal that Wind was uncertain about the lecture’s title, moving between ...