Tomb Sculpture: Four Lectures on Its Changing Aspects from Ancient Egypt to Bernini
Tomb Sculpture: Four Lectures on Its Changing Aspects from Ancient Egypt to Bernini
Harry N. Abrams | 1964 | ISBN: N/A | English | 324 pages | PDF | 79 MB
This book presents a distinguished quartet of lectures by Erwin Panofsky, the scholar who is everywhere acknowledged as today's greatest interpreter of the meaning of works of art. In these lectures Dr. Panofsky throws light on the world of tomb sculpture, a form of art that has been with us since the dawn of civilization, because its imagery expresses man's hopes and fears in the face of death, his striving for immortality.