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Indeed, some are less convinced of the merits of the scientific approach to artistic interpretation. “There’s a methodological problem at the core of the entire approach, and it has to do with consciousness and subconsciousness,” says Frank Fehrenbach, Professor of History of Art and Architecture. “What are you testing? What is your primary material? All these people [researchers] start with vocal response from their test persons. If you develop ideas about how art works on us then you determine that art must work on us in a certain...
...Fehrenbach, familiar with the advances in neurobiology and psychology and what they offer art historians from a seminar he recently taught, says that a more science-oriented approach is a prominent channel in art history that seems to be gaining momentum. His concerns with it, however, range from the methodological issue mentioned above to more fundamental areas of disagreement...
...Planck Research Award in the humanities for her contribution to the study of architecture. Payne, professor of history of art and architecture, focuses her research on architecture in the Renaissance, Baroque, and modern era. But she does more than look at the buildings and monuments, said Frank Fehrenbach, also professor of history of art and architecture. “Many people focus on the buildings of an epoch, but she is also interested in theory,” he said. “There are not so many [people] working on that, especially in Italian Renaissance architecture...
...Vinci scholar, Fehrenbach added that he was not impressed by Dan Brown’s best-selling book...
...Vinci Code”] is a disappointingly bad, boring and astonishingly uptight book, without any humor—and also a misleading one, since Leonardo felt disgust about anything related to occultism, esoteric ‘wisdom,’” Fehrenbach wrote...