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The Imaginary Breeze: Remarks on the Air of the Quattrocento

2003; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 2; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/1470412903002003001

1741-2994

Georges Didi‐Huberman,

Multidisciplinary Warburg-centric Studies

Aby Warburg placed the wind, or air, at the centre of his investigation of the art of the Italian Renaissance. This article investigates how an ‘external cause of the image’ takes on the role of a figure in Quattrocento painting and sculpture, and becomes foundational for Warburg’s understanding of the Pathosformel and of Nachleben.