In the canon
Studies in Iconology
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1939
- Pages
- Pages 262
An acquaintance lifts his hat to you in the street. Panofsky begins there, with a gesture so ordinary it seems to carry nothing, and shows that reading it whole means reading a civilization: the shapes your eye registers, the greeting they convey, and beneath that a residue of medieval chivalry, the armed man baring his head to prove he means no harm.
It is in the search for intrinsic meanings or content that the various humanistic disciplines meet on a common plane
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