A Late Antique Religious Symbol in Works by Holbein and Titian
In his academic career,Panofsky has written three papers around a"Signum triciput"motif in the works by Titian and Holbein,spanning three decades,forming a small"trilogy".This is the first article(in collaboration with Zaxl)in which the author uses historical documents and images,with deep humanistic scholarship,to explain the symbolic meaning of this motif that puzzled the collecting and appreciation community at the time.On this basis,Pan returned to this thesis twice in 1930 and 1955,and finally restored the cultural memory of this classic motif for us modern people.