Ludwig Hilberseimer

88 color and 10 b/w 
illustrations

Dora Thornton is curator of Renaissance collections in the Department of Medieval and Modern Europe in the British Museum and the author of The Scholar in His Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy

ISBN 978-0-89236-472-5

“Landscape photography has a rich and diverse history that reveals much about the development of the medium since its birth in 1839

The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity: Contributions to the Cultural History of the European Renaissance Influencer 7/21 Ludwig HilberseimerAby Warburg Introduction by Kurt W. Forster Translation by David Britt Aby Warburgbibliophile, scholar, library founderhas become known as one of the most original and brilliant art historians of this century. Born in 1866 as the eldest son of a leading family of bankers, he purportedly turned his birthright over to younger brother Max in favor of committing some of the family's vast financial resources to scholarship, assembling a library that later