Resumen de Gottfried Semper und Jacob Burckhardt. Der unterschiedliche Blick auf die Renaissance
Jacob Burckhardt and Gottfried Semper played an important role in the discourse on the 19th-century preoccupation with the Renaissance. In 1860, Buckhardt published for the first time the book Die Cultur der Renaissance, which symbolizes like no other work the newly developed interest in the Renaissance and humanism of that time. In the same year, Semper published his unfinished magnum opus Der Stil, where the “Renaissance” is considered only marginally, and yet he is the architect whose buildings can be linked to the concept of “Neorenaissance.” Semper and Burckhardt are linked not only by deep knowledge of Renaissance architecture but also by a willingness to support, and contribute to, a cultural “idea.” One formulated a virtuosic cultural history that emerged as an artwork; the other put all his knowledge and analyses to the service of a forward-looking, “empirical artistic doctrine” based on individuality.
