Erwin Panofsky Born in Hanover, Erwin Panofsky studied at the universities of Berlin, Munich and Freiburg, Breslau, receiving his Ph.D. in 1914 from the University of Freiburg. He taught at the universities of Berlin, Munich, and Hamburg from 1920 to 1933, and during this period Panofsky started to develop the "iconological", matching the subject-matter of works of art to a symbolic syntax of meaning drawn from literature and other art works, approach to art history in his …showed first 75 words of 294 total…

…showed last 75 words of 294 total…constant interaction of what has been called 'wild Celtic fancy' and the 'deep feeling and good sense of the Nordic races.ÕÓ Accordingly, Panofsky attributes to English Gothic architecture three important innovations epitomizing their two contrasting principles: the first representing a triumph of the irrational; the second a triumph of the rational; the third a triumph of both (the decorative and the perpendicular style standing for the first and second, the fan vault for the third).