Jacob Burckhardt





Jacob Burckhardt

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born
May 25, 1818 in Basel, Switzerland

died
August 08, 1897

gender
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Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt was a historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history, albeit in a form very different from how cultural history is conceived and studied in academia today. Siegfried Giedion described Burckhardt's achievement in the following terms: "The great discoverer of the age of the Renaissance, he first showed how a period should be treated in its entirety, with regard not only for its painting, sculpture and architecture, but for the social institutions of its daily life as well." Burckhardt's best known work is The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860).


Average rating: 3.76 · 356 ratings · 27 reviews · 63 distinct works
The Civilization of the Ren...
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The Age of Constantine the ...
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Reflections on History
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History of Greek Culture
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Civilization of the Renaiss...
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The State As A Work Of Art
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Italian Renaissance Paintin...
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Judgments on History and Hi...
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The Civilization of the Ren...
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