Erwin Panofsky
 Erwin Panofsky. | |
| Born |
March 30, 1892 Hanover, Germany |
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| Died |
March 14, 1968 (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.
Contents
Literature
Books
- Idea: A Concept in Art Theory, 1924.
- Perspective as Symbolic Form, 1927–. (in German, Spanish, English).
- Studies in Iconology, 1939, 1972.
- The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer, 1943.
- 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.
- 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
- "The Concept of Artistic Volition" [original: "Der Begriff des Kunstwollens" (1920); in Aufsditze zu Grundfragen der Kunstwissenschaft (Berlin, 1964)].
- with Fritz Saxl, "Classical Mythology in Mediaeval Art", Metropolitan Museum Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2 (March 1933), pp 228-280.
- "Style and Medium in Motion Picture", 1934–.
- "Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini portrait", in: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, 1934.
- "The Friedsam Annunciation and the Problem of the Ghent Altarpiece", in: The Art Bulletin, 1935.
- "The Early History of Man in a Cycle of Paintings by Piero di Cosimo", in: Journal of the Warburg Institute, 1937.
- "Galileo as a Critci of the Arts: Aesthetic Attitude and Scientific Thought", in: Isis, vol. 47, no. 1 (Mar., 1956), pp. 3-15.
- with Ernest C. Hassold, "Wilhelm Voge: A Biographical Memoir", in: Art Journal, vol. 28, 1968.
- "Erasmus and the Visual Arts", in: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 32 (1969), pp. 200-227.
- "Reflections on Historical Time", Critical Inquiry, Vol. 30, No. 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", translated by Katharina Lorenz and Jas’ Elsner, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Autumn 2008), pp. 43-71.
- "On the Problem of Describing and Interpreting Works of the Visual Arts", translated by Katharina Lorenz and Jas’ Elsner, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Spring 2012), pp. 467-482.
Books on Panofsky
- 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.
