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Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) is perhaps the preeminent historian of classical and Renaissance art, architecture, and culture. Burckhardt completed significant" cultural history, " which he only described in his famous Reflections on History and in a celebrated series of lectures delivered in Basel in 1872. Burckhardt dramatically renounced these speeches during his own lifetime, fearing a hostile reception by a world body of scholars and critics who remained wedded to a romanticized view of the
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- Author
- Jacob Burckhardt
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780312244477
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Greece, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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