Schifanoia
Aby Warburg
Aby Warburg (1866–1929) solved the riddle of the 36 mysterious figures in the Sala dei Mesi of the Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara: they are Greek star gods, transformed on a journey through Egypt, India, Baghdad and Spain. His lecture at the International Congress of Art History in Rome (1912), after the print of 1922, with its 13 plates, a film of the Sala dei Mesi and 61 new notes, edited by Bernhard Trebuch. Reading sample: ad notam, introduction and the description of the frescoes.
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