Practice question · Numerical answer
Panofsky published Studies in Iconology in 1939 and Feldman set out his four-stage model in 1970. How many years separate them?
Hints
- Subtract the earlier date from the later.
- 1970 minus 1939.
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31
Why
31 years, and they were built for different jobs. Panofsky was reconstructing what a Renaissance image meant to the people who commissioned it; Feldman was designing a classroom procedure for looking. They are compatible because the second is a discipline of order and the first is a discipline of evidence.
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