Michelangelo’s principles or Panofsky’s? Review of: Michelangelo’s Design Principles, Particularly in Relation to Those of Raphael by Erwin Panofsky, edited by Gerda Panofsky, translated by Joseph Spooner, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020

The discovery in 2012 of Erwin Panofsky’s Habilitation thesis on Michelangelo is just short of sensational. The thesis, written for the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Hamburg in 1919-20, ambitiously sets out to define the fundamental design principles of Michelangelo’s art, especially a...

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Main Author: William E. Wallace
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2020-12-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/wallace-rev.pdf