Renaissance and Baroque

Wölfflin, Heinrich

Collins

Die Klassische Kunst: Eine Einführung in Die Italienische Renaissance. Mit 112 Erläuterden Abbildungen (German Edition)

Arts & Photography

Wentworth Press

Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art

What are the fundamental differences between classic and baroque art? Is there a pattern underlying the seemingly helter-skelter development of art in different cultures and at different times? What causes our entirely different reactions to precisely the same painting or to the same painter? In this now-classic treatise, published originally in Germany in the early 1920s, Professor Wölfflin provides an objective set of criteria to answer these and related questions. Examining such factors as style, quality, and mode of representation in terms of five opposed dynamisms (the linear vs. painterly, plane vs. recession, closed vs. open form, multiplicity vs. unity, and clearness vs. unclearness), the author analyzes the work of 64 major artists, delving even into sculpture and architecture. 150 illustrations of the work of Botticelli, van Cleve, Durer, Holbein, Brueghel, Bouts, Hals, Rembrandt, Velasquez, Titian, Vermeer, and other major figures accompany Professor Wölfflin's brilliant contributions to the methodology of art criticism. Whether you teach art, study it, or want to understand it purely for your own enjoyment, this epoch-making study will certainly increase your comprehension of and pleasure in the world's art heritage.

History & Criticism

Dover Publications

Classic art : an introduction to the Italian Renaissance (Landmarks in Art History)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Phaidon/Oxford

Heinrich Wolfflin was a pioneering critic who introduced new and rigorous methods of formal analysis into the study of art. Classic Art, first published in 1899, is itself a classic that has exercised a profound influence on the way people have looked at and thought about art. As an appraisal of the great artists of the Renaissance it can hardly be surpassed. Once again available in its elegant original format, it is an indispensable addition to every library of art books.

Classic Art

Phaidon Press

Classic Art: An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance

Cornell University Press

Sense of Form in Art: A Comparative Psychological Study

Chelsea Pub. Co

These pioneering essays provide an overview of psychological aesthetics and Kunstwissenschaft.

Empathy, Form, and Space: Problems in German Aesthetics, 1873-1893 (Texts and Documents Series)

Mallgrave, Harry Francis

Schmarsow, August

Vischer, Robert

Fiedler, Conrad

Hildebrand, Adolf

Ikonomou, Eleftherios

Göller, Adolf

The Getty Center For The History Of Art

Principles of Art History: the Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art

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Hassell Street Press

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