Erwin Panofsky lecturing at UCLA 11/19/1967 

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Thankful for this resource. I am an art history student in Nigeria and this is very useful to me.

This is a very good lecture but really you now need a graduate art history student to add the exact painting Panofsky describes over his compelling dialogue. This wouldn't be difficult. The Three Graces, Leonardo, etc. This would bring this to life in a much more visual way. This is not doing presently UCLA Communications Studies Department a service. Digitize with the images and some visual literacy.

Panofsky makes a brilliant point about an apparent “problem paying the bill” in Leonardo’s Last Supper that today has strong musical analogies as well. For example, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony’s finale, the “Ode to Joy,” includes a “Turkish March” variation, which I have personally witnessed well-trained, professional musicians routinely refer to as “the nightclub scene” because they are innocent of exactly the same foundational knowledge of linguistics informing music, as artists are who don’t understand visual iconology.