• Erwin Panofsky (March 30, 1892, in Hannover – March 14, 1968, in Princeton, New Jersey) was a German-Jewish art historian, whose academic career was pursued...
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  • cultural history and the history of the visual arts used by Aby Warburg, Erwin Panofsky and their followers that uncovers the cultural, social, and historical...
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    the truest sense of the term". The portrait has been considered by Erwin Panofsky and some other art historians as a unique form of marriage contract...
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    highlights the limitations of allegorical or symbolic art. The art historian Erwin Panofsky, whose writing on the print has received the most attention, detailed...
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    and its Art Treasures, edited, translated, and annotated by Erwin Panofsky and Gerda Panofsky-Soergel, 40–81. 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press...
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    tradition developed whereby Judith had both a maid and a charger, taken by Erwin Panofsky as an example of the knowledge needed in the study of iconography. For...
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  • the Motion Pictures is a 1936 essay by the art historian Erwin Panofsky. In the essay, Panofsky "seeks to describe the visual symptoms endemic" to the medium...
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    although this latter is a matter of scholarly dispute. Art historian Erwin Panofsky has described them as showing meticulous care in execution and also...
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    born in Berlin, Germany to a family of art historians Dorothea and Erwin Panofsky. His ancestors were of Jewish descent. He spent much of his early life...
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  • of jurist Albert Mosse of Berlin. In 1915 she met the art historian Erwin Panofsky, eight years her junior, in the Berlin seminar of medievalist Adolph...
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  • Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968) was a German art historian who worked in the U.S. Panofsky may also refer to: Panofsky Prize, awarded in the field of particle...
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    of the phrase is the subject of a famous essay by the art historian Erwin Panofsky, who suggested that, compared to Poussin's 1627 version, this second...
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  • Painting: Its Origins and Character is a 1953 book on art history by Erwin Panofsky, derived from the 1947–48 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. The book had...
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    Aby Warburg (1866–1929) and his followers Fritz Saxl (1890–1948) and Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968) elaborated the practice of identification and classification...
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    Pope Alexander VII, in St. Peter's Basilica, represents, according to Erwin Panofsky, the very pinnacle of European funerary art, whose creative inventiveness...
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    of ancient ideas as a period of great innovation. The art historian Erwin Panofsky observed of this resistance to the concept of "Renaissance": It is perhaps...
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    thoughtful and inward-looking. A number of art historians, including Erwin Panofsky, have detected mournfulness in his expression. The sitter was apparently...
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    single artist or a school. In his Meaning in the Visual Arts (1955), Erwin Panofsky explains the difference between a connoisseur and an art historian:...
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    saint's as he is engrossed in study and meditation" (94). Art historian Erwin Panofsky comments on the perspective: The position of the sight point, quite...
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    Marx, Sigmund Freud, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Erwin Panofsky and Marcel Mauss among others, his research pioneered novel investigative...
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    the newly founded University Ernst Cassirer used it, and his students Erwin Panofsky and Edgar Wind worked there. The original Warburg Library building in...
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    sculpture in a niche shows her holding the child in a similar pose. Erwin Panofsky sees the painting composed as if the main figures in the panel are intended...
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    literature from the period have not been successful. Art historian Erwin Panofsky wrote in 1953 that, "In spite of all the ingenious, erudite and in part...
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    2018-04-12. Though Pandora was not a subject of medieval art, Dora Panofsky and Erwin Panofsky examined the post-Renaissance mythos, see Bibliography West 1978...
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    Rome was too civilized, unlike the savage Germans. The art historian Erwin Panofsky explains that: There had been, from the beginning of Classical speculation...
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    movie theatre, it was a multi-use variety theatre. As art historian Erwin Panofsky recalls, in about 1905 "there was only one obscure and faintly disreputable...
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    nephew, Marco Vecellio, who, like Orazio, lived and worked with Titian. Erwin Panofsky, in his classic exposition, suggests that the painting is specifically...
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    Medici Chapels and the Church of San Lorenzo. Sillabe Publishing 1999. Panofsky, Erwin (1964). "The Mouse That Michelangelo Failed to Carve" (PDF) (Essays...
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    Sourcebook. Wipf and Stock Publishers. pp. 179–181. ISBN 978-1-62564-718-4. Erwin Panofsky. Hercules am Scheidewege und andere antike Bildstoffe in der neueren...
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    of the art historian Erwin Panofsky, at the Institute for Advanced Study. Cherniss spoke at a memorial service for Erwin Panofsky, a colleague at the Institute...
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