Author:Rudolf Wittkower, Margot Wittkower

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Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists (New York Review Books Classics)

By: Rudolf Wittkower, Margot Wittkower

Price: $18.95

Publisher: NYRB Classics: November 2006

Seller ID: 12107

ISBN: 1590172132

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a "delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution."

Born Under Saturn is a classic work of scholarship written with a light and winning touch. Margot and Rudolf Wittkower explore the history of the familiar idea that artistic inspiration is a form of madness, a madness directly expressed in artists' unhappy and eccentric lives. This idea of the alienated artist, the Wittkowers demonstrate, comes into its own in the Renaissance, as part of the n...
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