Fechner g th gustav theodor (2 risultati)

77, (3) S. Ill. Orig.-Pappband (= Insel-Bücherei Nr. 345). - Rücken gebräunt und mit kleinen Einrissen. Papier ebenfalls gebräunt (ex-Raucher-Exemplar); Kopfschnitt etwas stockfleckig. Ansonsten gut erhaltenes Exemplar. Innen sauber.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. 1 leaf, 45 pp. Later cloth-backed boards, with original front wrapper trimmed and mounted on front board. Upper corners of boards worn. Paper browned. First Edition. Reprints two papers published in Archiv für die zeichnenden Künste: "Vorbesprechung über die Deutungsfrage der Holbein schen Madonna mit Rücksicht auf die Handzeichnung Nr.65 des Baseler Museums"; "Die älteste historische Quelle über die Holbeinsche Madonna." In the first article, Fechner "answers challenges by critics to his hypothesis that the infant in the arms of Holbein s Meyer Madonna amalgamates the Christ Child and the donor s sick child. Cites a tradition in Swabian and Bavarian chapels . . . in which statues of the Madonna hold images of the deceased children of families wishing to commend their souls to heaven. Argues that drawing no. 65 in the Basel Kunstmuseum, depicting the virgin and a kneeling soldier, is a preliminary design for the painting. Sees Holbein's own child as the model for the child in the drawing" (Michael, Hans Holbein the Younger, no. 828, p. 325). Copy of psychologist Edwin G. Boring (with his signature on the front flyleaf). OCLC locates copies in these US libraries: Harvard, Univ. Southern California, Stanford, Wisconsin (OCLC misspells "Holbein'schen" as "Holbeiin'schen").…