FAH102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Modern Art, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Giorgio Vasari
Document Summary
The roots of the discipline: hk chapter 3, erwin panofsky. The history of art as a humanistic discipline. meaning in the visual arts (chicago: university of chicago press, 1955), 1-26. Art is very old, but art history is not. Art history as a discipline is new and have short history. early 19 cent. Subject matter it came from a myth: content - context (who paint it? who paint for? who pay the money for it?) History is necessary, not only to make life agreeable, but also to endow it with a moral signi cance. Panofsky: by studying art, we are not only studying the thing from past, art historian also do it in a great moral purpose. Dynamic between the thing and the ppl who are looking at it. Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects (1550) Series of biography - writing about the world he knew.
