Early Netherlandish Painting (Panofsky)

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Early Netherlandish Painting
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First edition, Volume one: Text, Volume two: Plates
Author Erwin Panofsky
Cover artist Volume one:Madonna of Chancellor Rolin, c. 1435 by Jan van Eyck
Volume two The Virgin of the Annunciation, from the Portinari Triptych, c.1479 by Hugo van der Goes[1]
Country United States
Language English
Genre Art history
Publisher Harvard University Press
Publication date
1953
Media type Print (hardback (1953) and paperback (1971))
Pages 358 pages of text, 150 pages of notes, 496 illustrations
ISBN 978-0-06-436683-0

Early Netherlandish Painting, Its Origins and Character, is a 1953 book on art history by Erwin Panofsky, derived from the 1947–48 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. The book had a wide impact[2] on studies of Renaissance art and Early Netherlandish painting in particular, but also studies in iconography, art history, and intellectual history in general. The book is particularly well-known for its iconographic treatment of Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait as a kind of marriage contract. The book remains influential despite its reliance on black-and-white reproductions of paintings, which led to some errors of analysis.[3]

Early Netherlandish Painting shares its title with an earlier book by Max J. Friedländer, a fact obliquely acknowledged at the beginning of the preface.[4]

References

References
  1. The Virgin of the Annunciation, from the Portinari Triptych, c.1479 (oil on panel) Posters & Prints by Hugo van der Goes Retrieved 01-01-2016.
  2. Shone, Richard and Stonard, John-Paul, eds. The Books That Shaped Art History: From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss, chapter 7. London: Thames & Hudson, 2013.
  3. The Books That Shaped Art History, p. 95
  4. Early Netherlandish Painting, p. vii
Sources
  • Panofsky, Erwin. Early Netherlandish Painting, Its Origins and Character. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953.
  • Holly, Michael Ann. Panofsky and the Foundations of Art History. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984.
  • Podro, Michael. The Critical Historians of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
  • Shone, Richard and Stonard, John-Paul, eds. The Books That Shaped Art History: From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss. London: Thames & Hudson, 2013.

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