| This revised edition incorporates the additions and corrections recorded by Erwin Panofsky until the time of his death in 1968. Gerda Panofsky-Soergel has updated the commentary in the light of new material, and the bibliography that she has prepared reflects the scholarship on St.-Denis in the last three decades. She has obtained some additional and more recent photographs, and the illustrations include a new ground plan and a new section of the chevet of the Abbey Church, both drawn under the supervision of Sumner McKnight Crosby. Erwin Panofsky taught until 1933 at the University of Hamburg and, later, at New York University and Princeton University, joining the faculty of the institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in 1935. His writings are considered among the most important of the twentieth century in art history. "Dr. Panofsky is to be congratulated on producing, for the first time in any modern language, the whole of Suger's writing on St.-Denis, an unparalleled historical, archaeological, and ecclesiological text, and one of the world's literary treasures, a central pillar of the twelfth-century renaissance. . . . This is a work of first-class importance, and destined to remain the standard edition for a long time to come."--The Burlington Magazine PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION vii
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION xi
LIST OF FIGURES xvi
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xvii
INTRODUCTION 1
TEXT AND TRANSLATIONS 39
LIBER DE REBUS IN ADMINISTRATIONE SUA GESTIS 40
LIBELLUS ALTER DE CONSECRATIONE ECCLEA SANCTI DIONYSII 82
ORDINATO A.D. MCXL VEL MCXLI CONFIRMATA 122
COMMENTARY 139
PRELIMINARY REMARKS
THE TEXTS; DATES; TRANSMISSION, AND READINGS 141
PERSONS AND PLACES; UNITS OF WEIGHT AND CURRENCY 146
AUTHOR'S NOTE 146
COMMENTARY UPON THE "LIBER REBUS IN ADMINISTRATION SUA GESTIS" 147
COMMENTARY UPON THE "LIBEELLUS ALTER DE CONSECRATIONE ECCLESIAE SANCTI DIONYSII" 224
COMMENTARY UPON THE "ORDINATIO" OF 1140 OR 1141 251
GLOSSARY 260
BIBLIOGRAPHIC ABBREVIATIONS 262
ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY SINCE 1945 264
INDEX 277
ILLUSTRATIONS 285 This book has been translated into: Another Princeton book authored or coauthored by Erwin Panofsky:
![bookjacket]() | | The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer
Erwin Panofsky
With a new introduction by Jeffrey Chipps SmithPaperback | 2005 | $49.95 / £34.95 | ISBN: 9780691122762 368 pp. | 7 1/4 x 10 1/4 | 326 halftones. 8 line illus. | ![]() SHOPPING CART |
| This classic text presents the life, times, and works of Albrecht Dürer. Through the skill and immense knowledge of Erwin Panofsky, the reader is dazzled not only by Dürer the artist but also Dürer in a wide array of other roles, including mathematician and scientific thinker. Originally published in 1943 in two volumes, The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer met with such wide popular and scholarly acclaim that it led to three editions and then, in 1955, to the first one-volume edition. Without sacrifice of text or illustrations, the book was reduced to this single volume by the omission of the Handlist and Concordance. The new introduction by Jeffrey Chipps Smith reflects upon Panofsky the man, the tumultuous circumstances surrounding the creation of his masterful monograph, its innovative contents, and its early critical reception. Erwin Panofsky was one of the most important art historians of the twentieth century. Panofsky taught for many years at Hamburg University but was forced by the Nazis to leave Germany. He joined the faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1935, where he spent the remainder of his career and wrote The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer. He developed an iconographic approach to art and interpreted works through an analysis of symbolism, history, and social factors. This book, one of his most important, is a comprehensive study of painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), the greatest exponent of northern European Renaissance art. Although an important painter, Dürer was most renowned for his graphic works. Artists across Europe admired and copied his innovative and powerful prints, ranging from religious and mythological scenes to maps and exotic animals. The book covers Dürer's entire career in exacting detail. With multiple indexes and more than three hundred illustrations, it has served as an indispensable reference, remaining crucial to an understanding of the work of the great artist and printmaker. Subsequent Dürer studies have necessarily made reference to Panofsky's masterpiece. Panofsky's work continues to be admired for the author's immense erudition, subtlety of appreciation, technical knowledge, and profound analyses. Praise for Princeton's previous editions: "Whatever was immortal of Albrecht Dürer is covered by this book."--Wolfgang Stechow, Art Bulletin "Panofsky'sDürer--the result of a lifetime of looking, thinking, reading and making connections--belongs in the library of anyone who takes art seriously. Everything we could want to know about one of history's stellar artists is here."--Victor M. Cassidy, ArtNet.com "The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer may be mandatory reading for students and scholars alike, but it is also one of the more enjoyable reading assignments out there, one that can be mined for material again and again. . . . Smith's concise and well-paced introduction adds another layer to the history of the life of the book itself within the context of twentieth-century historiography."--Susan Maxwell, Sixteenth Century Journal This book has been translated into: |
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