Art History I / The Iconographic Method
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Complete the account of the method.

Level one, ______ description, identifies forms and expressions using practical experience. Level two, iconographical analysis, requires knowledge of literary ______. Level three is what Panofsky called ______. Warburg's term for a persistent formula of bodily gesture is the ______.

Word bank: pre-iconographical · sources · iconology · Pathosformel · iconography · types

Hints
  1. The first blank names the level performed before identification.
  2. The last blank is Warburg's, not Panofsky's.
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Level one, pre-iconographical description, identifies forms and expressions using practical experience. Level two, iconographical analysis, requires knowledge of literary sources. Level three is what Panofsky called iconology. Warburg's term for a persistent formula of bodily gesture is the Pathosformel.

Why

The last blank is the point where the two founders diverge. Panofsky's levels are a procedure for reading one image; Warburg's Pathosformel is a claim about what travels between images across centuries, and the two projects have been in productive tension ever since.

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