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Meaning in the visual arts : papers in and on art history

Title
Meaning in the visual arts : papers in and on art history / by Erwin Panofsky.
Publication
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday Anchor Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1955]
Copyright Notice Date
©1955
Physical Description
xviii, 362 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 1976 S17 A59: Paperbound.
LWL 722 P19 955: Gift of the author with autograph inscription, in Latin, to Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, Jan. 1956.
BEIN Tanselle Z44 0152: Paperbound. Autograph: G.T. Tanselle.
Notes
Includes revised versions of some of his earlier writings. See: page v.
"Anchor A 59"--Page 1 of cover.
"Cover design by George Giusti; typography by Diana Klemin"--Title page verso.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: The history of art as a humanistic discipline
Iconography and iconology: an introduction to the study of Renaissance art
The history of the theory of human proportions as a reflection of the history of styles
Abbot Suger of St.-Denis
Titian's Allegory of Prudence: a postscript
The first page of Giorgio Vasari's "Libro": a study on the Gothic style in the judgment of the Italian Renaissance, with an excursus on two façade designs by Domenico Beccafumi
Albrecht Dürer and classical antiquity, with an excursus on the illustrations of Apianus' "Inscriptiones" in relation to Dürer
Et in Arcadia ego: Poussin and the elegiac tradition
Epilogue: Three decades of art history in the United States: impressions of a transplanted European.
Genre/Form
Art.
works of art.
Art.
Also listed under
Giusti, George, 1908-1991, illustrator.
Klemin, Diana, typographer.
Doubleday & Company, Inc., publisher.
United States New York (State) Garden City.
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