Ernst Cassirer represents the transition from Marburg Neo-Kantian epistemology toward a philosophy of symbolic forms encompassing language, myth, culture, and art.
Panofsky’s concept of Sinn defines the work of art as a historically situated yet internally organized unity in which form, content, and meaning become inseparable.
Warburg and Panofsky connect visual form with cultural memory, historical symptoms, iconology, worldview, and the evidential limits of interpreting artworks within their historical worlds.
