Erwin Panofsky
Noun
Meaning
art historian (1892-1968)
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Although may of the art historians of the early 20th century, including Erwin Panofsky and Max Jakob Friedländer saw him as a painter who did little but distill the style of others and painted in an archaic and unimaginative style.
As art historian Erwin Panofsky explains: There had been, from the beginning of classical speculation, two contrasting opinions about the natural state of man, each of them, of course, a "Gegen-Konstruktion" to the conditions under which it was formed.
Difficulties of interpretation John William Waterhouse : Pandora, 1896 Historic interpretations of the Pandora figure are rich enough to have offered Dora and Erwin Panofsky scope for monographic treatment.
In Hesiodic scholarship, the interpretive crux has endured: Dora Panofsky and Erwin Panofsky examined the post-Renaissance mythos (Pandora was not a subject of medieval art) in Pandora's Box.
Iconology in contrast to iconography Erwin Panofsky defines iconography as "a description and classification of images", while iconology is "an iconography turned interpretive".