Principles Of Art History: The Problem Of The Development Of Style In Later Art

by Heinrich Wölfflin, Marie Donald Mackie Hottinger (Translator)

Book by Wolfflin, Heinrich

Genres: Art History

252 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2015

About the author

Heinrich Wölfflin was a Swiss art historian, whose objective classifying principles ("painterly" vs. "linear" and the like) were influential in the development of formal analysis in art history in the early 20th century. He taught at Basel, Berlin and Munich in the generation that raised German art history to pre-eminence. His three great books, still consulted, are Renaissance und Barock (1888), Die Klassische Kunst (1898, "Classic Art"), and Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe (1915, "Principles of Art History").