Panofsky

Question 1

Pre-iconography

Answer 1

Description of the artwork
Identifying pure forms 
Perceiving expressional qualities
Basic kind of formal analysis
The 'innocent eye'
History of style

Question 2

Iconography

Answer 2

Identification of images, stories and allegories
Recognition of what the represented represents
Subject matter rather than form
Requires extensive knowledge of culture/processes of image-making
History of types

Question 3

Iconology

Answer 3

Intrinsic meaning or content
How and why imagery chosen 
Meanings of motifs/symbols/allegories in their cultural context
The meaning of the image
Interpretation through synthesis
History of cultural symptoms or symbols

Question 4

History of Style

Answer 4

Objects and events expressed by forms in varying historical conditions

Question 5

History of Types

Answer 5

Specific themes or concepts expressed by objects and events in varying historical conditions

Question 6

History of Cultural Symptoms or ‘Symbols!

Answer 6

The manner in which, under varying historical conditions, the general and essential tendencies of the human mind were expressed by specific themes and concepts

Question 7

Panofsky

Answer 7

Student of Warburg
Sought to ground interpretation in sound account of artistic form
Show works of art as symbolic expressions of the culture within which they were created
Sees every cultural expression as characteristic articulation of certain tendencies of the human mind
The mind is both universal and particular

Question 8

Warburg

Answer 8

Rejected purely formal approach championed by scholars such as Wolfflin
A given periods art was connected in numerous ways with religion/philosophy/literature/science/politics/social life

Question 9

The Hermeneutic Problem

Answer 9

How can on understand something if one does not share the conditions which gave meaning to it in the first place?