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ARTT2102 TUTORIAL WEEK 6
INTRODUCTION TO THE ANALYSIS OF IMAGES PANOFSKY,
BAXANDALL
Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968)
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1904-1996
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The connoisseur might thus be defined as a
laconic art historian, and the art historian as a
loquacious connoisseur. In point of fact the best
representatives of both types have enormously
contributed to what they themselves do not
consider their proper business. Erwin Panofsky,
Introduction The History of Art as a Humanistic
Discipline, in Meaning in the Visual Arts,
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1955, 20
Iconography THAT BRANCH OF THE HISTORY OF ART
WHICH CONCERNS ITSELF WITH THE SUBJECT MATTER OR
MEANING OF WORKS OF ART, AS OPPOSED TO THEIR
FORM. Erwin Panofsky, Iconography and
Iconology An Introduction to the Study of
Renaissance Art, in Meaning in the Visual Arts,
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1955, 26
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Panofskys analysis of the meaning of an event
(such as meeting a man in the street who raises
his hat)
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Panofskys analysis of the meaning of a painting
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INTRINSIC MEANING OR CONTENT (Panofsky) IT
IS APPREHENDED BY ASCERTAINING THOSE UNDERLYING
PRINCIPLES WHICH REVEAL THE BASIC ATTITUDE OF A
NATION, A PERIOD, A CLASS, A RELIGIOUS OR
PHILOSOPHICAL PERSUASION - UNCONSCIOUSLY
QUALIFIED BY ONE PERSONALITY AND CONDENSED INTO
ONE WORK. 30
Ernst Cassirer - symbolical values
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Robert Campin and assistant, Mérode Altarpiece
(Annunciation Triptych), c.1425. Oil on wood.
Metropolitan Museum, New York City, Cloisters
Collection
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Social facts, I argued, lead to the development
of distinctive visual skills and habits and
these visual skills and habits become
identifiable elements in the painters style.
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century
Italy A Primer in the Social History of
Pictorial Style (1972)
Tilman Riemenschneider, Altarpiece of the Holy
Blood, 1499-1505. Limewood sculpture, c.900 cm
high. St Jakobskirche, Rothenburg-on-the-Tauber
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Tilman Riemenschneider (c.1460-1531), Noli me
tangere, 1490-92. Limewood. Parish Church,
Münnerstadt
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Tilman Riemenschneider (c.1460-1531), St John,
1505-10. Unpainted wood 56cm high. Collection
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich
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Arithmetic, with counters on the lines (right)
and the algorism (left). From Gregor Reisch,
Margarita Philosophica, Basle, 1508.
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Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), Vier Bücher von
menschlicher Proportion, Nuremberg, Hieronymous
Formschneyder, 1528
Veit Stoss (c.1445/50-1533), Virgin and Child,
1480-90. Boxwood, traces of gilding, 20.3 cm.
Collection VA Museum
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Michael Erhart (active 1469-1522), Altarpiece
(1493-94) from Benedictine Abbey Church,
Blaubeuren
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Meditation on the Crowning with Thorns. From
Septimania poenalis, c.1455-60.
Universitätsbibliothek, Heidelberg
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Nikolaus Gerhaert (attributed), Bust of a Man,
c.1465. Sandstone. Musée de lOeuvre Notre-Dame,
Strassburg