Erwin Panofsky
Erwin Panofsky. | |
Born |
March 30, 1892 Hanover, Germany |
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Died |
March 14, 1968 Princeton, New Jersey, USA | (aged 75)
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
- Perspective as Symbolic Form, 1927–. (in German, Spanish, English).
- "Style and Medium in Motion Picture", 1934–.
- Meaning in the Visual Arts, 1955 -.
- 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
- Articles
- Erwin Panofsky and Fritz Saxl, "Classical Mythology in Mediaeval Art", in: Metropolitan Museum Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Mar., 1933), pp. 228-280.
- "Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini portrait", in: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, 1934.
- "Galileo as a Critci of the Arts: Aesthetic Attitude and Scientific Thought", in: Isis, vol. 47, no. 1 (Mar., 1956), pp. 3-15.