Making of a Romantic Icon: The Religious Context of Friedrich Overbeck's "Italia Und Germania" Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 97, Part 5): 670 - Hardcover

Gossman, Lionel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871699753 ISBN 13: 9780871699756

Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press, 2007

Synopsis

In this thought-provoking book, Gossman focuses on Overbeck's "Italia and Germania" to discuss the importance of religious conversion in Romantic thought. Gossman gives excellent translations from original German sources that are not only accurate but may enable the Anglophone reader to truly grasp the spirit of the sources. This book serves as a thoughtful and elegantly written introduction to the way of thinking of one of the most important of the Nazerene painters. It treats the evolution of the Nazarene artists' preoccupation with religious issues in an engaging manner and offers a social-historical and theological context to Overbeck's painting by looking interestingly at a wide range of issues and contacts in his early Nazarene period. Illus.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0871699753
• ISBN 13: 9780871699756
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 101