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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Art Historiography |
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| Online Access: | https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/wallace-rev.pdf |
| Summary: | 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 as they can be articulated in contradistinction to the art of Raphael. The thesis, published in a luxurious facsimile German edition in 2014, now appears in an English translation permitting Anglo-Saxon readers the welcome opportunity to observe the maturing of one of the great figures of Art and Intellectual History. |
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| ISSN: | 2042-4752 |