Übersetzungsfragen: Eine Neubewertung der Begriffe ,Renaissance', ,Antik' und ,Klassisch' in der Kunstgeschichte

Erwin Panofsky’s assertions in Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art (1960) that a new historical consciousness and a quest for an ‘all’antica’ idiom was manifest in the art and architecture of the period are routinely reiterated in art historical narratives.By formally analyzing fifteenth-century visual culture, however, questions can be raised about what the artists and architects of the period actually used as their models and how they understood and studied the pa...