Early Netherlandish Painting (Panofsky book)

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Early Netherlandish Painting
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]
Language	English
Genre	Art history
Publisher	Harvard University Press
Publication date	1953
Publication place	United States
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, a hypothesis advanced by Panofsky as early as 1934. 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 the comprehensive, 14-volume survey by Max J. Friedländer, a fact obliquely acknowledged at the beginning of the preface.^[4]

References

^ 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.
^ Nash (2013), pp. 89–101
^ Nash (2013), p. 95
^ Early Netherlandish Painting, p. vii

Sources

Holly, Michael Ann. Panofsky and the Foundations of Art History. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984
Nash, Susie. "Erwin Panofsky, Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character, 1953". In: The Books that Shaped Art History, London: Thames & Hudson, 2013
Panofsky, Erwin. Early Netherlandish Painting, Its Origins and Character. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953
- Reprinted in paperback as a Harper and Row "Icon Edition," 1971.
Podro, Michael. The Critical Historians of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982

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