Image Study of Titian's Discreet Fables under the Horizon of Panofsky's Iconography

Alvin Panofsky is known as the "father of modern iconography" and the founder of the western theory of "iconography" in the 20th century. The theory of art image built by him breaks through the single art analysis mode of formalist aesthetics and integrates into the research concept of humanistic art history, which makes art scholars begin to understand art works from the historical condition. His book "The Meaning of Visual Art" systematically expounds the study of iconography and iconography from the literature research of history, mythology, religion and literature. This paper takes Panofsky's The Meaning of Visual Art as a reference, extracts the analysis of the fourth art work in the book, and studies Titian's The Discreet Allegory under the horizon of his imagological theory, aiming to reintegrate and sort out Panofsky's analysis of the Discreet Allegory. And through the research and analysis of the limitations of the research methods of image science, to provide a new idea for the definition of the application of the research methods of image science.