Iconology Panofsky. Iconology is a method of interpretation in 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 background of themes and subjects in the visual arts. 1972 Harper Row.
Let us then try to define the distinction between subject matter or meaning on the one hand and form on the otherThe meaning thus discovered may be called intrinsic meaning or content. Panofsky - Studies in Iconology Author. General Overviews Panofsky is often criticized but as a pioneering attempt to provide a philosophy of iconology it forms the iconoolgy point for later writers who differ from it GombrichTaylor Despite the fact that natural meaning provides the data for a further analytical process the first substantial and semi-conscious stage is the iconographical one which comprises of secondary subject.
In 1946 van Gelder criticized Panofskys iconology as putting too.
Three successive levels in an interpretative process 9 See Figure II. Gombrich 1975 Hope 1981 and Hochmann 2008 are more concrete studies of the likely significance of Renaissance artworks but their arguments are intended in part to undermine the. The rhetoric of the Ar-chimedean point is thus written into what is an otherwise straight-forward description of a hermeneutic interpretation. It is the rhet-oric the references.
