Erwin Panofsky

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.

Works

Books

• Idea: A Concept in Art Theory, 1924.
• Perspective as Symbolic Form, 1927–. (in German, Spanish, English) [1].
• 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

• "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

• compiled by Alessia Tacchi

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.

Links

• Erwin Panofsky at Wikipedia
• Erwin Panofsky at German Wikipedia
• A biography of Panofsky
• Panofsky at Dictionary of art historians
• Barthes and Panofsky are best friends
• Icone (in Italian)