Alternative Title: “Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien”
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discussed in biography
...art history into historiography relies on such notions as a zeitgeist, or spirit of an age. The
Alternative Title: “Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien”
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discussed in biography
...art history into historiography relies on such notions as a zeitgeist, or spirit of an age. The originator of this approach was Jacob Burckhardt (1818–97), whose masterpiece, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, begins with a chapter called “The State as a Work of Art” and argues that artistic production in the Renaissance is of a piece with...
influence on Lamprecht
...of Göttingen, Leipzig, and Munich (1874–79). In 1878 he completed his doctoral dissertation at Leipzig on the 11th-century French economy. The influence upon him of Jacob Burckhardt’s Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, with its emphasis on psychological characteristics of certain historical epochs, was evident in one of Lamprecht’s earliest essays, also published in...
...with some intellectual or artistic skill; it was not until the 19th century that historians such as the French Jules Michelet and then, above all, the Swiss Jacob Burckhardt (whose The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy was first published in German at Basel, Switz., in 1860) began to write of the Renaissance as a period of time.
view of Middle Ages
...his admiration to the 16th century, virtually coining the term Renaissance in the process o