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Edgar Wind. Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1958. 230 pp. in 4°+77 plates. $7.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Robert Klein
Robert Klein*
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University of Paris
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Renaissance News , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1960 , pp. 237 - 240
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1 That leads him to some rather strange complications: thus a medallion in stucco in the Loges of the Vatican is supposed to represent the Neoplatonic triad of the Graces, but under ‘stoic’ disguise; and the ‘stoic Graces’ of Correggio would seemingly have undergone the influence of Neoplatonism, because the one on the left appears in a state ofraptio or of ‘conversion’ (p. 51 and n. 5, figs. 40 and 16).

2 Except for one observation, p. 152, on the expression of his face (‘the demonic Alcibiadic spirit’) and one other, p. 153, on the animal skin joined to the cluster of grapes.