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#Art Hist 100 Feb 28 Notes

Question:

Iconography and Iconology Topic:

Iversne and Melville hav suggested that Erwin Panofsky favored an.....

###Key Objects

• Iconology and Iconography
• Historical Distance
• "Objectivity"
• Melville and Iversen

What do these things mean?

###Panofsky

And the foundations of Art History

Three steps to the method

1. Pre-iconographic: (e.g Man and woman hold hands, dog near them, sunny outside)
2. Conventional, iconographic(literary) (e.g Adam and Eve from the bible have separate snakes)
3. Iconological phase: Generally first step is hitting the historical archives.

• The icon- in iconography and iconology is a symbol.
• Character from the Da-vinci code is a symbologist at Harvard(The department doesn't actually exist)

####Symbols

Example: Christ gives St.Peter the keys to the gates of Heaven

######Formalist:

• A man has blue robes, it has many shadows painted in it. A formal reading involves also analyzing his tunic, and how the colors between the robe and the tunic look together

######Iconographical: THIS IS JESUS.

#####Panofsky Essay Perspective as symbolic form

• Panofsky does an iconological reading of perspective.
• The neatline between form and symbol is muddy.
• An icon can be a set of lines, it doesn't have to be JESUS.

The point of iconography is you can't just approach a print and know what your seeing.

Iconography answers questions that form can't attend to

####Historical Distance

• In the past, much of history was already written in text(the bible).
• Panofsky operates on a more linear, German idea of history that moves better and forward from past to present.
• Panofsky believes that using Iconography is an objective method because it infers a context for specific icons.
• Nothing undermines the objectivity of panofsky's method but new information can come in and make a new consensus.

#####Interpretations of Objectivity

Panofsky lived under an Autocrat. He wanted to give art-historians a method to prevent ideaological appropiations of art and events.

Nazi's had the slogan "roots and soils"

• Panofsky wanted to make it very difficult for the Nazi's to make appropiations for various symbols and ideas.
• Whitney and Thadeus butt heads on the idea of objective truth. Thadeus pushes back against a singular, intrinsic objctive truth.
• For Panofsky artist intentions are deeply important.

Subjective and Objective should be thought of as a continum, on a spectrum.