Erwin Panofsky
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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.
Works
Books
- Die theoretische Kuntlehre Albrecht Durers, Berlin, 1914. (PhD Thesis)
- Idea: A Concept in Art Theory, Leipzig-Berlin, 1924; Berlin: Wissenschaftsverlag Volker Speiss, 1993.
- Idea: Prilog povijesti pojma starije teorije umjetnosti, trans. Irena Martinović and Boris Nikšić, Zagreb: Golden marketing, 2002, IA. (Croatian)
- Perspective as Symbolic Form, 1927–. [1] Log (German)/(Spanish)/(Spanish) .
- Studies in Iconology, 1939, 1972.
- The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer, 1943. (based on his thesis)
- Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism, Latrobe, The Archabbley Press, 1951.
- Arquitectura Gotica y Pensamiento Escolastico, trans. Julia Varela and Fernando Alvarez-Uria, Madrid: Las Ediciones de La Piqueta, 1986 (in Spanish).
- Arhitectură gotică și gândire scolastică, trans. Marina Zavaca, Bucuresti: Anastasia, 1999 (in Romanian).
- Early Netherlandish Painting, 1953.
- Galileo as a Critic of the Arts, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1954; 2nd edition, Springer, 1956, IA.
- Meaning in the Visual Arts, 1955.
- with Dora Panofsky, Pandora's Box: the Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol, 1956
- Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art, 1960.
- Tomb Sculpture, 1964.
- with Raymond Klibansky and Fritz Saxl, Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion, and Art, 1964, 1979.
- Problems in Titian, mostly iconographic, 1969.
- Three Essays on Style, ed. Irving Lavin, 1995.
Selected articles
- "Der Begriff des Kunstwollens", 1920; repr. in Aufsaetze zu Grundfragen der Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin, 1964. (German)
- "The Concept of Artistic Volition", trans. Kenneth J. Northcott and Joel Snyder, Critical Inquiry 8:1 (Autumn 1981), pp 17-33. [2]
- with Fritz Saxl, "Classical Mythology in Mediaeval Art", Metropolitan Museum Studies 4:2 (Mar 1933), pp 228-280.
- "Style and Medium in the Motion Pictures" [1934], in Film: An Anthology, ed. Daniel Talbot, University of California Press, 1966, pp 15-32.
- "Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini portrait", The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, 1934.
- "The Friedsam Annunciation and the Problem of the Ghent Altarpiece", The Art Bulletin, 1935.
- "The Early History of Man in a Cycle of Paintings by Piero di Cosimo", Journal of the Warburg Institute, 1937.
- "Galileo as a Critic of the Arts: Aesthetic Attitude and Scientific Thought", Isis 47:1 (Mar 1956), pp. 3-15.
- with Ernest C. Hassold, "Wilhelm Voge: A Biographical Memoir", Art Journal 28 (1968).
- "Erasmus and the Visual Arts", in: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 32 (1969), pp 200-227.
- "Reflections on Historical Time", Critical Inquiry 30:4 (Summer 2004), pp 691-701.
- "On the Relationship of Art History and Art Theory: Towards the Possibility of a Fundamental System of Concepts for a Science of Art", trans. Katharina Lorenz and Jas’ Elsner, Critical Inquiry 35:1 (Autumn 2008), pp 43-71.
- "On the Problem of Describing and Interpreting Works of the Visual Arts", trans. Katharina Lorenz and Jas’ Elsner, Critical Inquiry 38:3 (Spring 2012), pp 467-482.
Bibliography
Literature
- Michael Ann Holly, Panofsky and the Foundations of Art History, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1985.
- Sylvia Ferretti, Cassirer, Panofsky, Warburg: Symbol, Art, and History, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1989.