Erwin Panofsky

disprove. Instead he would like to bring forth evidence of many cultural similarities and the diversity of culture throughout different locations in the Mediterranean. Paich has taken ideas from German Art Historian Aby Warburg, Fritz Saxl and Erwin Panofsky as the methodology used has surpassed formal art history to include “research into meaning by following, identifying and collecting…

both show that there is a distinction between two types of Signified: A Denotative signified and a Connotative signified. Denotation described the literal, definitional, obvious or the meaning arising out of ‘common sense’. For the art historian Erwin Panofsky, the…

In the context of European history, the period from 1585 to 1700-1730 is often called the Baroque era. The word “baroque”, as Erwin Panofsky says in his book Three Essays on style, signifies everything wildly abstruse, obscure, fanciful, and useless. The other derivation of the term from Latin verruca and Spanish barueca meaning a wart and by extension an irregular shaped pearl. Eighteenth century critics were the first to apply the term to the art of the 17th century. It was not a term of…