Legend has it that art historian Aby Warburg famously gave up a considerable inheritance to his younger
brother on condition that said brother would buy him any book he ever
wanted. So the
Warburg library
was born. Such a love of books makes it curious that
Warburg dreamed of an art history without texts. Because words are gifts as much as pictures, I'm skeptical of the project; but I will say that an image
replication made by sophomore David Wainwright for my Art 101 class at Wheaton College this semester (using self portraits) outdoes many textual commentaries on Hieronymus Bosch that I've read.
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| Left: Bosch's Christ Carrying the Cross (1515) Right: David Wainwright's Wheaton College replication for Art 101 (2013) |
