Ruinen
Reflexionen über Gewalt, Chaos und Vergänglichkeit = Ruins : reflexions about violence, chaos and transience
by Hans Dieter Schaal
Chaos and anarchy represent the opposite pole to an ordered life. Nothing works any more, everything is devastated, everything is falling apart. City walls, buildings that once afforded protection, have fallen victim to the excesses of armed conflict. Infernal threats, ambushes, fiery rain and other catastrophes were described even in the Bible. Pillaging and plunder were part of everyday life in the Middle Ages. Cruel deeds familiar from the Bible, or those described by other people or experienced personally, inspired painters in the transitional period from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, and were picked out as a central theme in their pictures.
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Ruinen: Reflexionen über Gewalt, Chaos und Vergänglichkeit = Ruins : reflexions about violence, chaos and transience
2011, Edition Axel Menges
in German
3936681465 9783936681468
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Includes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references.
German and English.
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