Making of a Romantic Icon: The Religious Context of Friedrich Overbeck's "Italia Und Germania" Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 97, (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780871699756)

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.

Author: Lionel Gossman
ISBN-10: 0871699753
ISBN-13: 9780871699756
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2007
Pages: 101
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.31d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 221