Panofsky defined an artist as "one who is full of images." He was especially concerned with the iconography of the various periods he studied and interpreted works through the themes, symbols, and ideas inherent in the history of art.
Panofsky was permitted to spend alternate terms in Hamburg and New York, but after the Nazis came to power and ousted all Jewish officials, he was forced to leave Germany.
Panofsky saw his first films in the silent era when often a pianist accompanied the events on the screen with music.
ErwinPanofsky was born in Hanover as the son of Arnord and Caecilie (Solling) Panofsky.
Panofsky's iconological interpretation is not far from Roland Barthes's later semiological system, in which the basic terms are sign, signifier, and signified.
by Irving Lavin (1995); Cassirer, Panofsky, and Warburg by Silvia
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