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'''Erwin Panofsky''' was a German art historian. Panofsky's work remains highly influential in the modern academic study of iconography, and many of his works are still in print, including ''Studies in Iconology: Humanist Themes in the Art of the Renaissance'' (1939), and his study on Albrecht Dürer.
 
'''Erwin Panofsky''' was a German art historian. Panofsky's work remains highly influential in the modern academic study of iconography, and many of his works are still in print, including ''Studies in Iconology: Humanist Themes in the Art of the Renaissance'' (1939), and his study on Albrecht Dürer.

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Erwin Panofsky.
Born March 30, 1892(1892-03-30)
Hanover, Germany
Died March 14, 1968(1968-03-14) (aged 75)
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Erwin Panofsky was a German art historian. Panofsky's work remains highly influential in the modern academic study of iconography, and many of his works are still in print, including Studies in Iconology: Humanist Themes in the Art of the Renaissance (1939), and his study on Albrecht Dürer.

Literature

Works
  • Idea: A Concept in Art Theory, 1924
  • Studies in Iconology, 1939
  • The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer, 1943
  • Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism, 1951
  • Early Netherlandish Painting, 1953
  • Pandora's Box: the Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol [with Dora Panofsky], 1956
  • Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art, 1960
  • Tomb Sculpture, 1964
  • Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion, and Art [with Raymond Klibansky and Fritz Saxl], 1964
  • Problems in Titian, mostly iconographic, 1969
  • Three Essays on Style [ed. Irving Lavin], 1995

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