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Ercole al bivio. Altri materiali iconografici dell'antichità tornati in vita nell'arte moderna
352 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1930
About the author
Erwin Panofsky
148 books127 followersErwin Panofsky was a German art historian, whose academic career was pursued almost entirely in the U.S. after the rise of the Nazi regime. In 1935, while teaching concurrently at New York University and Princeton University (something he continued to do his entire career), he was invited to join the faculty of the newly formed Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. From 1947 to 1948 Panofsky was the Charles Eliot Norton professor at Harvard University.
Panofsky's work remains highly influential in the modern academic study of iconography. Many of his works remain in print, including Studies in Iconology: Humanist Themes in the Art of the Renaissance (1939), and his eponymous 1943 study of Albrecht Dürer. His work has greatly influenced the theory of taste developed by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, in books such as The Rules of Art or Distinction. In particular, Bourdieu first adapted his notion of habitus from Panofsky's Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism.
Panofsky's work remains highly influential in the modern academic study of iconography. Many of his works remain in print, including Studies in Iconology: Humanist Themes in the Art of the Renaissance (1939), and his eponymous 1943 study of Albrecht Dürer. His work has greatly influenced the theory of taste developed by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, in books such as The Rules of Art or Distinction. In particular, Bourdieu first adapted his notion of habitus from Panofsky's Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism.
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April 28, 2012
There can be no better brief summation of this magnificent iconological exercise than that penned by one of Panofsky's earliest students, William S. Heckscher (1904-1999), who referred to it in 1969 as a, "wonderful surrealistic tour de force."
Heckscher recalls Panofsky in those years as a ""witty, acerbic and conceited genius."
See: W. S. Hecksher, Art and Literature. Studies in Relationship, ed. Egon Verheyen (1985), p. 347.
Heckscher recalls Panofsky in those years as a ""witty, acerbic and conceited genius."
See: W. S. Hecksher, Art and Literature. Studies in Relationship, ed. Egon Verheyen (1985), p. 347.
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