目录 · · · · · · Foreword, E. H. Gombrich 7 Introduction, Richard Woodfield 9 Principal Works of E. H. Gombrich 18 An Autobiographical Sketch 21 Old Masters and Other Household Gods 37 The Visual Image: its Place in Communication 41 On Art and Artists 65 Psychology and the Riddle of Style 83 Truth and the Stereotype 89 Action and Expression in Western Art 113 Illusion and Art 139 The Use of Colour and its Effect: the How and the Why (Radio interview, 1992), Bridget Riley 161 The Necessity of Tradition: an Interpretation of the Poetics of I. A. Richards 169 Verbal Wit as a Paradigm of Art: the Aesthetic Theories of Sigmund Freud 189 Leonardo's Method for Working out Compositions 211 The Force of Habit 223 The Psychology of Styles 257 The Primitive and its Value in Art 295 Magic, Myth and Metaphor: Reflections on Pictorial Satire 331 Approaches to the History of Art: Three Points for Discussion 355 The Social History of Art 369 In Search of Cultural History 381 Architecture and Rhetoric in Giulio Romano's Palazzo del Te 401 From the Revival of Letters to the Reform of the Arts: Niccolo Niccoli and Filippo Brunelleschi 411 The Use of Art for the Study of Symbols 437 Aims and Limits of Iconology 457 Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura and the Nature of its Symbolism 485 The Subject of Poussin's Orion 515 Dutch Genre Painting 521 Imagery and Art in the Romantic Period 529 The Wit of Saul Steinberg 539 Franz Schubert and the Vienna of his Time (Address celebrating the 150th anniversary of the composer's death, 1978) 547 Nature and Art as Needs of the Mind: the Philanthropic Ideals of Lord Leverhulme 565 Goethe: the Mediator of Classical Values (Speech delivered on receiving the Goethe Prize, 1994) 585 Notes 591 Index 615