Publication

2011 - Edition Axel Menges, Stuttgart

Language

German

Word Count

67,750 words, Guess

Page Count

271 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCN8237.8.R8 S33 2011

Alternate Titles

  • Reflexionen über Gewalt, Chaos und Vergänglichkeit
  • Ruins :
  • Reflexions about violence, chaos and transience

Description

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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