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Erwin Panofsky’s comprehensive study of Early Netherlandish Painting – The Plates – companion volume to Volume 1. Please view the photographs in this excellent book. A must for anyone studying art history.

Review: This is the companion piece to Panofsky’s seminal book on Northern Renaissance art (Early Netherlandish Painting, Vol. 1). If you are seriously interested in Northern Renaissance art – work by Van Eyck, Rogier, Campin, Memling, etc. – you must read Panofsky. Although many of Panofsky’s theories have since been challenged, he laid the groundwork for all subsequent studies of the work of this era. He is surprisingly readable and accessible even to the lay reader. Strongly recommended.

Erwin Panofsky (March 30, 1892 – March 14, 1968) was a German-Jewish art historian whose work represents a high point in the modern academic study of iconography, including his hugely influential Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art and his seminal Early Netherlandish Painting.

Panofsky’s ideas were highly influential in intellectual history in general, particularly in his use of historical ideas to interpret artworks and vice versa. Many of his books are still in print, including Studies in Iconology: Humanist Themes in the Art of the Renaissance (1939), Meaning in the Visual Arts (1955), and his 1943 study The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer. His academic career was pursued mostly in the U.S. after the rise of the Nazi regime.