Professor Panofsky’s study “Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism” occupies an outstanding place in the series of so-called Wimmer Readings, which in themselves are a notable cultural phenomenon. The readings were established and named in honor of Boniface Wimmer, founder of the Benedictine Order in America; they were held at St. Vincent's College and featured such fine scholars as Jacques Maritain (Man's Approach to God), William Albright (Toward a Theistic Humanism), Helen White (Prayer and Poetry), and Elias Lowy (“The Most Wonderful Book in the World”). Boniface Wimmer would certainly have approved of Erwin Panofsky’s research and the way it was presented. In one of his letters, written more than a hundred years ago, he said the following: “I am deeply convinced that a monastery educational institution that does not strive to develop the study of art to the same extent as the study of science and religion will never achieve perfection. in its activities. In scientific affairs, some shortcomings can be overlooked, at least in the initial stages, but negligence in the encouragement of the arts should be severely condemned.” Time has not diminished the meaning of these words. Trans. by editor: Erwin Panofsky. Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism. N.Y., 1957. With abbreviations and without notes (mostly extended Latin quotations).