Signum triciput: art, idea, history

The translation of Erwin Panofsky’s book, published in Leipzig in 1930, and reissued in Berlin in 1987, entails an outlook that has certainly been introduced as a basic factor for reassessing the way iconography is accepted in France--and above all the Germany of Panofsky and all those who, together with him, made his oeuvre possible. The discovery of the challenges of this kind of analysis is a gradual process. The undertaking was embarked upon in 1967 with the Essays in Iconology published ...