Edgar Wind
1900
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1971
country of citizenship: Germany
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: University of Hamburg
occupation: art historian, university teacher, philosophy historian
award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Rome Prize, Serena Medal
Edgar Wind (; 14 May 1900 – 12 September 1971) 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. Wind is best remembered 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 in the Renaissance. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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