Criticism of Panofsky's Viewpoint and Method in "Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St Denis"

Document Type : Original Article

Author
seyd majid hoseyni
islamic school of art
Abstract
Erwin Panofsky is a leading scholar of the twentieth century in the field of medieval
studies. his Book: Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St Denis are one of his most important
works on art, architecture, and Gothic philosophy. Panofsky's extensive research, carried out
by Symbolism and Iconography, made significant advances in the study of images and opened
up new horizons to art historians. Panofsky's approach was also criticized. One of the most
important reviews about Panofsky's method is "Doxography" rather than "historiography",
and there are some doubts about the impact of Suger on Gothic, in particular. Panofsky in
his works, attempts to identify Suger as a Gothic architect and philosopher, or at least as the
author and commentator of a set of philosophical thoughts of that era (the school of St. Victor,
the School of Chartres and the Boethius legacy with the Augustinian-Dionysian thought), And
creates a philosophical system for Suger. The second critique of Panofsky's interpretation
is to eliminate the autonomy of the image; on the image that Panofsky is engaged in his
iconography, there are usually masses of aesthetic and mythological texts attached, as if the
image without them is understandable

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Theology of Art
Volume 1395, Issue 6
Autumn 2016
Pages 147-162