is generally considered the greatest art historian of the twentieth century. Thanks to a college tour in the United States in the 1930s, he managed to escape the upcoming nazi reign in his native Germany, where he was never to return. As an art scholar, he lives on through masterpieces such as Studies in Iconology (1939), The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer (1943), and Early Netherlandish Painting (1953). His influential essay ‘Et in Arcadia Ego. Poussin and the Elegiac Tradition’ first appeared in Philosophy and History, Essays Presented to Ernst Cassirer (1936), and was afterwards included in Meaning in the Visual Arts (1955). [100609]