Main entry:

Panofsky, Dora Mosse.

Title & Author:

Pandora's box; the changing aspects of a mythical symbol, by Dora And Erwin Panofsky.

Publication:

[New York] Pantheon Books [1956]

Description:

xiv, 158 pages illustrations 27 cm

Series:

Bollingen series, 52

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Pandora in the Medieval tradition -- The origin of the "box": Erasmus of Rotterdam -- Pandora and hope: Andrea Alciati -- Pandora and ignorance: Rosso Fiorentino -- Roma Prima Pandora; Eva Prima Pandora; Lutetia Nova Pandora -- Pandora, "gift of all": Elizabethans and Jacques Callot -- Pithoigia [in Greek characters]: Hesiod vs. Babrius et al. -- Romanticism, Classicist and Victorian -- Pandora on the stage: Calderón, Voltaire, Goethe, and Late-Antique allegory.

Summary:

Study of the myth of Pandora, its representation in art, and its mythological and religious significance.

ISBN:

0691018243 (paperback)
9780691018249 (paperback)

Subject:

Pandora (Greek mythological character) Art.
Pandora (Greek mythological character)
Pandore (mythologie grecque) Dans l'art.
Pandore (mythologie grecque) Dans la littérature.
Die Büchse der Pandora
Mythology, Classical.
Pandore dans l'art.
Mythologie ancienne.
Ikonographie
Visual arts Special subjects Myths

Form/genre:

works of art.
Art
Œuvres d'art.

Added entries:

Panofsky, Erwin, 1892-1968, author.
Bollingen series ; 52.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 127177
Call No.: ID:86-B6210
Status: Available