• 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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