
By Martin Ruehl
In the direction of the top of the 19th century, Germany's bourgeois elites turned enthralled by means of the civilization of Renaissance Italy. As their very own state entered a section of severe socioeconomic alterations, German historians and writers reinvented the Italian Renaissance because the onset of a heroic modernity: a wonderful sunrise that ushered in an age of secular individualism, imbued with ruthless power and a neo-pagan zest for attractiveness. The Italian Renaissance within the German ancient mind's eye is the 1st entire account of the debates that formed the German notion of the Renaissance within the seven many years following Jacob Burckhardt's seminal research of 1860. in keeping with a wealth of archival fabric and improved by means of greater than 100 illustrations, it offers a brand new standpoint at the ancient considered Imperial and Weimar Germany and the formation of an idea that remains with us this present day.
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Warburg’s 1891 dissertation on Botticelli is a case in point. 65 Context, for Warburg, primarily meant cultural context.
These palingenetic ideas, which 21 F. Nietzsche, Der Antichrist (§ 61), in: Nietzsche, Kritische Studienausgabe (KSA), ed. G. Colli and M. Montinari, 15 vols. (Berlin, 1967–88), vol. vi, p. 251. What it means to be modern 15 sometimes ushered in calls for a second Renaissance, drew on Burckhardt’s conception of the Renaissance as the unfinished project of secularization. Insofar as it not only dissociated the Renaissance from the Reformation, but actually extolled the former over the latter, Burckhardt’s Civilization of the Renaissance also represented a powerful challenge to one of the deeply entrenched Protestant pieties that informed the German assessment of the early modern period in the long nineteenth century.
F. Hegel, Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Geschichte, in: Hegel, Sämtliche Werke, 3rd edn, vol. xi (Stuttgart, 1949), pp. 519, 524. 16 Introduction 6 Luther’s Disputation with Cardinal Cajetan at Augsburg (By Wilhelm Lindenschmit, 1876) Alongside Gothicism and medievalism, the cult of Luther represented another formidable challenge to the idea of the Renaissance in Germany. According to the advocates of Nationalprotestantismus, it was the Reformation – ‘the deed of a Germanic genius’ – and not Quattrocento Italy that had established the modern sense of self.