LES PRIMITIFS FLAMANDS Erwin Panofsky * iconography human Dürer Wilson’s Grammar

Description: LES PRIMITIFSFLAMANDSby Erwin Panofsky ... with more than 50boys signatures fromWilson’s Grammar School's6th form, 5th form, 3rd form. Headed: “Wilson’s Grammar School: 1952; Dinant: Belgium.”** French Language ** vgc*French Language* from UK: A large rare+important HARDBACK 1st Edn by Editions Marion. Undated, believed c.1952. Original paper dustjacket with tipped-in colour plate illustr on front cover. Dustjacket has rubbing at edges and tears at corners(2cm), also a little grubby from handling. Tightly bound. Square spine+boards excellent, corners not bumped. Endpapers vgc but w/many signatures on pastedown(see pic). High quality semi-gloss pages filled with many colour+ b&w photos +tipped-in plates (+some additional loose ones & paper-clippings). Pages clean+unmarked with no discolour, no corner folds {33x25½cm, 1800g} The signatures:There are more than 50 boys signatures from 6th form, 5th form, 3rd form of Wilson’s Grammar School. Headed: “Wilson’s Grammar School: 1952; Dinant: Belgium.” (see internet). [note: this book was supposed to have been issued in 1953 but they obtained this copy in 1952.] * Prompt posting 7days/week * Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968) was a German art historian. His academic career was pursued mostly in the USA after the rise of the Nazi regime. Panofsky's work remains highly influential in the modern academic study of iconography, and many of his works are still in print, including Studies in Iconology: Humanist Themes in the Art of the Renaissance (1939), and his eponymous 1943 study of Albrecht Dürer. This was one of the leading works of Panofsky, developed from a series of lectures. It retains this original remarkable clarity and constitutes what is called a sum. Released in 1953, it was translated by Hazan for its first edition in French in 1992. L'étude Panofsky follows the chronological course, going back a long way behind: the question of the origins of this northern art that will culminate at mid-fifteenth century occupies a very important place. And it is a fascinating study on poorly cleared land: Franco-Flemish miniatures, the International Gothic style, the art of the Burgundian court, local schools North before the revolution of the ars nova which appears with the Master of Flémalle. Then come the chapters of the Golden Age, the Van Eyck and Van der Weyden, which are like so many monographies.Le book ends with a study of the immediate heirs of that age: Petrus Christus, Dirk Bouts, Hugo Van der Goes, Gerard David, Justus of Ghent, etc. Here the iconological approach Panofsky bends to make stylistic history and gradually release the emergence of a whole cultural continent...

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