Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists

5 best books like Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists (Margot Wittkower): The Leopard, The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast, Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley, Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance, The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71

The Leopard

Author	Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
ISBN	0679731210

The Leopard is a story of a decadent and dying aristocracy threatened by the forces of revolution and democracy. Set against the political upheavals of Italy in the 1860s, it focuses on Don Fabrizio, a Sicilian prince of immense sensual appetites, wealth, and great personal magnetism. Around this...

The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast

Author	Giordano Bruno
ISBN	0803261047

"Among the heretics of every age, we find men who are filled with the highest kind of religious feeling," Albert Einstein said. He might have been referring to the sixteenth-century Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, who was tried by two Inquisitions and burned at the stake in Rome in 1600.Bruno's...

Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley

Author	Lawrence Sutin
ISBN	0312288972

Aleister Crowley was a blustery coward, an arrogant, misogynistic racist with fascist leanings, and a callous user, as often threatened by his sexuality as he claimed to be liberated by it. But he was also a groundbreaking poet and an iconoclastic visionary whose literary and cultural legacies extend...

Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance

Author	Erwin Panofsky
ISBN	0064300250

Gran bel saggio, grande classico degli studi sull'iconologia (e della storia dell'arte in genere).Dopo una ricca introduzione dove Panofsky spiega la genesi dell'opera e il suo metodo di lavoro, si passa a una serie di saggi dedicati, nell'ordine, dine, a:

- Preistoria umana in due cicli...

The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71

Author

Alistair Horne

Alistair Horne's The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune, 1870-71 is the first book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The Price of Glory and To Lose a Battle and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany.

The collapse of France in 1870 had an overwhelming...