Panofsky, Erwin

Panofsky, Erwin, Albrecht Diirer, 2 vols. (New Jersey Princeton, third edition 1948). 

Panofsky, Erwin. Idea (New York Harper and Rowe, 1968). 

Erwin Panofsky (preface), Petrus Berchorius. Reductorium Morale. Liber XV. Ovidus Moralisatus (Utrecht, 1966), 40 ff. 

In this instance, one particularly has in mind Erwin Panofsky s classic investigation of The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer (1955) for the procedures employed in iconological research, see Kaemmerling. 

Janson, H. W. The Image Made by Chance in Renaissance Thought. Ed. M. Meiss. De artibus opuscula XL Essays in Honor of Erwin Panofsky. New York Univ. Press, 1961. 254-66. 

Our challenge today is to develop insight and illumination into our profession—to eng age in intellectual debate about the changes that have occurred and what we have accomplished, the impact and utility of our science, and what else we should do and how. Let us be critical about our successes as well as our failures. The art historian Erwin Panofsky described three stages of development in the intellectual mind. In stage one, you sit at the foot of the masters you learn the traditions, the crafts, the techniques and you solve problems that the masters posed, using tools that the masters developed. In stage two, you re the master yourself, you develop your own... 

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