Art historians who specialize in the Italian Renaissance have found a Neoplatonic interpretation, which was most clearly articulated by Ernst Gombrich, to be the most enduring way to understand the painting.

At that time William Coldstream was Professor of Painting and the art historian E. H. Gombrich was in his last year as Professor of Art History.

Among them were Ernst Gombrich ( entrusted with the main task of finding a publisher ), Friedrich Hayek ( who wanted to get Popper to the London School of Economics and thus was enthused by Popper's turn to social philosophy ), Lionel Robbins, Harold Laski ( both of whom reviewed the manuscript ), and J. N.

It is considered one of the most original and complex paintings in Western art ; according to Ernst Gombrich " in its own way it was as new and revolutionary as Donatello's or Masaccio's work in Italy.

Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE ( 30 March 1909 – 3 November 2001 ) was an Austrian-born art historian who became a naturalized British citizen in 1947.

The son of Karl Gombrich and Leonie Hock, Gombrich was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, into an assimilated bourgeois family of Jewish origin who were part of a sophisticated social and musical milieu.

When in 1945 an upcoming announcement was prefaced by a Bruckner symphony written for Wagner's death, Gombrich guessed correctly that Hitler was dead and promptly broke the news to Churchill.

Gombrich was close to a number of Austrian émigrés who fled to the West prior to the Anschluss, among them Karl Popper ( to whom he was especially close ), Friedrich Hayek and Max Perutz.

Gombrich remarked that he had two very different publics: amongst scholars he was known particularly for his work on the Renaissance and the psychology of perception, but also his thoughts on cultural history and tradition ; to a wider, non-specialist audience he was known for the accessibility and immediacy of his writing and his ability to present scholarly work in a clear and unfussy manner.

He did most of this translation and revision himself, and it was completed by his long-time assistant and secretary Caroline Mustill and his granddaughter Leonie Gombrich after his death.

The complete list of his publications, E. H. Gombrich: A Bibliography, was published by Joseph Burney Trapp in 2000.

When Gombrich arrived in England in 1936, Art History was largely concerned with connoisseurship.

Gombrich, however, had been brought up in the Viennese culture of Bildung and was concerned with wider issues of cultural tradition and the relationship between science and art.

And as Gombrich was always more concerned with the individual rather than mass movements ( the famous first line of The Story of Art is ' There really is no such thing as Art.

Gombrich was a great admirer of Leonardo da Vinci and wrote extensively on him, both in these volumes and elsewhere

Gombrich was sensitive to the criticism that he did not like modern art and was obliged to defend his position on occasion.

Ernst Gombrich referred to the strictures of this schematic imagery, the adherence to that which was already known, rather than that which is seen, as the " Egyptian method ", an allusion to the memory-based clarity of imagery in Egyptian art.

According to scholar Richard Gombrich, the sutta gives strong evidence that it was conceived entirely as a satire of pre-existing beliefs, and he and scholar David Kalupahana have asserted that the primary intent of this text is to satirize and debunk the brahminical claims regarding the divine nature of the caste system, showing that it is nothing but a human convention.

This leads Gombrich to conclude that either whole sutta is apocryphal, or it has at least been tampered with.

1964-66 Shachar was junior research fellow at the Warburg Institute ( University of London ) where he worked on a doctoral dissertation under the supervision of professor E. H. Gombrich ( finished 1967 ).

* Ernst H. Gombrich, ' The Heritage of Apelles ', The Heritage of Apelles: Studies in the Art of Renaissance, ( Cornell University Press: Ithaca, New York, 1976 ), pp 3 – 18.

The woman appears alive to an unusual measure, which Leonardo achieved by his new method not to draw the outlines, " mainly in two features: the corners of the mouth, and the corners of the eyes " ( Gombrich ), as firmly as that had been the use, before ( sfumato ).

Gombrich had written his first major work The Story of Art in 1950, ten years before Art and Illusion.

# Tevijja Sutta: asked about the path to union with Brahma, the Buddha explains it in terms of the path as above, but ending with the four brahmaviharas ; the abbreviated way the text is written out makes it unclear how much of the path comes before this ; Professor Gombrich has argued that the Buddha was meaning union with Brahma as synonymous with nirvana

Gombrich has been called ' the best known art historian in Britain, perhaps in the world '.

* Gombrich, Ernst " A Little History of the World " ( 1936 & 1995 )

Gombrich appeals to an array of psychological research from James J. Gibson, R. L. Gregory, John M. Kennedy, Konrad Lorenz, Ulric Neisser and others in arguing for an ‘ optical ’ basis to perspective, in particular ( see also perspective ( graphical ).

Well-known scholars associated with the Warburg Institute include Ernst Cassirer, Rudolf Wittkower, Otto Kurz, Henri Frankfort, Arnaldo Momigliano, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Edgar Wind, Frances Yates, D. P. Walker, Michael Baxandall and Anthony Grafton.

* Ernst H. Gombrich: Aby Warburg.

London: Phaidon 1966 ( also published as: Gombrich on the Renaissance.

Gombrich, Symbolic Images: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance, London, Phaidon, 1972

Aesthetic Criteria: Gombrich and the Philosophies of Science of Popper and Polanyi.

* November 3 – Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE, Austrian-born art historian ( b. 1909 )

Some of the University's better-known students include: Christian Doppler, Kurt Adler, Franz Alt, Bruno Bettelheim, Rudolf Bing, Lucian Blaga, Josef Breuer, F. F. Bruce, Elias Canetti, Ivan Cankar, Otto Maria Carpeaux, Felix Ehrenhaft, Mihai Eminescu, Paul Feyerabend, Heinz Fischer, O. W. Fischer, Ivan Franko, Sigmund Freud, Alcide De Gasperi, Ernst Gombrich, Kurt Gödel, Erich Göstl, Franz Grillparzer, Jörg Haider, Edmund Husserl, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Marie Jahoda, Elfriede Jelinek, Percy Lavon Julian, Karl Kautsky, Elisabeth Kehrer, Hans Kelsen, Rudolf Kirchschläger, Arthur Koestler, Jernej Kopitar, Karl Kordesch, Karl Kraus, Bruno Kreisky, Richard Kuhn, Paul Lazarsfeld, Gustav Mahler, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Lise Meitner, Gregor Mendel, Franz Mesmer, Franc Miklošič, Alois Mock, Matija Murko, Pope Pius III, Maxim Podoprigora, Hans Popper, Karl Popper, Otto Preminger, Wilhelm Reich, Peter Safar, Mordkhe Schaechter, Arthur Schnitzler, Albin Schram, Wolfgang Schüssel, Joseph Schumpeter, Theodor Herzl, John J. Shea, Jr., Adalbert Stifter, Yemima Tchernovitz-Avidar, Kurt Waldheim, Otto Weininger, Stefan Zweig, and Huldrych Zwingli.

However Gombrich says, " Louis XV and Louis XVI, the Sun King's XIV successors, were incompetent, and content merely to imitate their great predecessor's outward show of power.

* Gombrich, E. H. " Pleasures of Boredom: Four Centuries of Doodles.

" In E. H. Gombrich, The Uses of Images, 212-225.

* E. H. Gombrich: " The Subject of Poussin's Orion " The Burlington Magazine, Vol.

R. F. Gombrich

* Gombrich, E. H., Symbolic Images, Phaidon, Oxford, 1975, " Hypnerotomachiana ".

He was possessive in his manner and, though a slave, obviously was educated after a fashion and imitated the manners of his owners.

A good deal of English was spoken on the beach, most educated Greeks learn it in childhood, and there were also American wives and children of our overseas servicemen.

This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.

No one was ever educated through bull-sessions in anything other than, to quote him again, `` perfumed bullshit.

Just because Cheddi Jagan, new boss of British Guiana, was educated in the United States is no reason to think he isn't a Red.

Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.

These were educated men, who, as Mr. Justice Holmes was fond of saying, formed their inductions out of experience under the burden of responsibility.

As Mr. Palmer was educated to house-building only, and had never seen a structure of this nature ; ;

Mother even went so far as to trump up for me matrimonial opportunities with Pasadena debs who had been educated abroad, and with those of the more lenient Los Angeles area where a debutante was a girl who had been to high school.

Not only in popular thought but in that of the highly educated as well was this true.

Aristotle was trained and educated as a member of the aristocracy.

His teacher was his mother, who supervised him for several years until she became terminally ill. After Hillside, he was educated at Eton College.

He was first educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, where he met fellow student Jefferson Davis.

Korzybski was educated at the Warsaw University of Technology in engineering.

Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône, Carrel was raised in a devout Catholic family and was educated by Jesuits, though he no longer practiced his religion when he entered the university.

Leopold was born in 1887 and educated at Yale University.

He was educated in Rome, studying literature, law, and rhetoric.

He was of noble Frankish parentage, and educated at the palace school in Aquae Grani ( Aachen ) under Alcuin.

Albertus was educated principally at Padua, where he received instruction in Aristotle's writings.

From the ages of 6 to 9, Alexei was educated by his tutor Vyazemsky, but after the removal of his mother by Peter the Great to the Suzdal Intercession Convent, Alexei was confined to the care of educated foreigners, who taught him history, geography, mathematics and French.