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The seminar 'Die Bedeutung der Antike für den stilistischen Wandel in der italienischen Kunst der Frührenaissance,' WIA, III.95.1, given at the University of Hamburg in the winter semester of 1925-26, was subtitled 'Der liebe Gott steckt im Detail.'
The abbreviation 'WIA' refers to unpublished material held at the Warburg Institute Archive. - ↑ Mayne, Richard (1963). The Community of Europe. New York: W. W. Norton. p. 92.
...on the principle that 'the devil is in the details', what should have been a merely formal occasion developed into a debate...
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