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Erwin Panofsky defines iconography as "a known principle in the known world", while iconology is "an iconography turned interpretive". [7] According to his view, iconology tries to reveal the underlying principles that form the basic attitude of a nation, a period, a class, a religious or philosophical perspective, which is modulated by one personality and condensed into one work. [8]
Holbein's The Ambassadors (1533) is a complex work whose iconography remains the subject of debate.. Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description and interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct from artistic style.
Erwin Panofsky (March 30, 1892, in Hannover – March 14, 1968, in Princeton, New Jersey) [1] was a German-Jewish art historian, whose academic career was pursued mostly in the U.S. after the rise of the Nazi regime.
Mitchell's monographs, Iconology (1986) and Picture Theory (1994), focus on media theory and visual culture. He draws on ideas from Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx to demonstrate that, essentially, we must consider pictures to be living things. His collection of essays What Do Pictures Want?
Historically, astrological and astronomical symbols have overlapped. Frequently used symbols include signs of the zodiac and classical planets.These originate from medieval Byzantine codices.
In 1779, the Scottish architect George Richardson's Iconology; or a Collection of Emblematical Figures; containing four hundred and twenty-four remarkable subjects, moral and instructive; in which are displayed the beauty of Virtue and deformity of Vice was published in London. The drawings were by William Hamilton.
Iconology is the first extended play (EP) by American hip hop artist Missy Elliott, released on August 23, 2019.It is her first body of work since her 2005 album The Cookbook and her first release since Respect M.E. [8] The EP features a variety of musical genres that cover the breadth of her career as an artist and has received favorable reviews from critics. [9]
Standing Buddha with a halo, 1st–2nd century AD (or earlier), Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara Jesus and nine of the Twelve Apostles depicted with "Floating" disk haloes in perspective (detail from The Tribute Money, illustrating Matthew 17:24–27, by Masaccio, 1424, Brancacci Chapel)