Erwin Panofsky and the renascence of the Renaissance.

From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: June 22, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

The German-born art historian Erwin Panofsky's interpretations of Renaissance art can be read as a projection of his idealized German self. Many German scholars of the era attempted to reinterpret art history in a manner that distanced their work from Nazi Germany. Panofsky, while living in America, was encouraged to develop theory in the German tradition, self-distanced from its American location but steeped in a culturally-biased viewpoint. For Panofsky, this cultural bias was his vision of an idealized, pre-Nazi Germany. The implications of Panofsky's work on later debates surrounding ...

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