Critic, poet and essayist Friedrich von Schlegel (1772 1829) was a leading figure of German Romanticism. This 1849 collection of his shorter works in English translation contains his key insights into literary criticism and art theory. While his early writings had championed classical forms and rejected modern styles, he went on to develop distinctly Romantic aesthetics and ethics. His 1794 treatise 'On the Limits of the Beautiful' demonstrates this philosophical transition in its effort to harmonise the elements of beauty: 'the richness of nature, the purity of love, and the symmetry of art'. Schlegel's other writings here apply his developing Romantic aesthetic to Christian art, Gothic architecture, and medieval poetry. The collection also includes the English translation of his seminal work on comparative grammar, Ueber die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier (1808), which is also reissued in this series in the original German."

Volume 2 of 2. Comprising the history of the Nimbus, the Aureole, and the Glory, the history of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. These volumes contain much valuable information, available equally to the artist and the architect, and to every votary of archaeological science. The history of the various gradations by which the art advanced to its most perfect and glorious conceptions of the deity form an interesting portion of this work. It further embraces the whole range of iconography, in its relation to the divine persons of the Blessed Trinity. Illustrated throughout.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1851 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1900 Edition.

Comprising Letters On Christian Art, An Essay On Gothic Architecture, Remarks On The Romance Poetry Of The Middle Ages And On Shakespeare, On The Limits Of The Beautiful And On The Language And Wisdom Of The Indians.

Comprising Letters On Christian Art, An Essay On Gothic Architecture, Remarks On The Romance Poetry Of The Middle Ages And On Shakespeare, On The Limits Of The Beautiful And On The Language And Wisdom Of The Indians.

Comprising Letters On Christian Art, An Essay On Gothic Architecture, Remarks On The Romance Poetry Of The Middle Ages And On Shakespeare, On The Limits Of The Beautiful And On The Language And Wisdom Of The Indians.