Sistine Ceiling
MS. Wind 186
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Sistine Ceiling
Shelfmark
MS. Wind 186
Summary
Folder 1: Draft, notes and comments relating to Edgar Wind's article on Typology in Kugler's Handbook of the History of Painting, related articles; general plan and original scheme of the Sistine Ceiling (drawings by Karl Schneider, photographs, negatives). [V, M 13, i+ii; WIND 199]
Folder 2: Transcript of BBC talk on Michelangelo, 15 Jun 1950 and correspondence with the BBC relating to a proposed series of talks, 1963; letter [Edgar Wind] to [Adolph] Oppe relating to Raphael's tapestries, also mentioning the Sistine Ceiling, 10 Dec 1943; typescript 'The Sistine Ceiling', early draft of general plan, 1940s. [V, M 13, ii-v; WIND 199]
Folder 3: Typescript The Sistine Ceiling. Part of 1950 version of text, with notes and revisions by Edgar Wind. [V, M 14, i; WIND 200]
Folder 4: Typescript The Sistine Ceiling. Fragments of 1950 version of text, some with notes and revisions by Edgar Wind. [V, M 14, ii; WIND 200]
Date
1943-1963
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box (4 folders)
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Collection contents
Scholarly Papers
Michelangelo
Sistine Ceiling
