02508cam a2200265 i 4500 on1089438714 OCoLC ta 190309t20192019njua e b 001 0 eng c 9780691204765 (paperback) 9780691156521 (cloth) 0691156522 (cloth) (OCoLC)1089438714 (OCoLC)1117596896 N7480 .W66 2019 Wood, Christopher S. A history of art history / Christopher S. Wood. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2019. 461 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-443) and index. "In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher S. Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late Middle Ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesising and assessing a vast array of writings, episodes, and personalities, this original and accessible account of the development of art-historical thinking will appeal to readers both inside and outside the discipline"-- "In this authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of writings, episodes, and personalities, this original and accessible account of the development of art-historical thinking will appeal to readers both inside and outside the discipline. The book shows that the pioneering chroniclers of the Italian Renaissance--Lorenzo Ghiberti and Giorgio Vasari--measured every epoch against fixed standards of quality. Only in the Romantic era did art historians discover the virtues of medieval art, anticipating the relativism of the later nineteenth century, when art history learned to admire the art of all societies and to value every work as an index of its times. The major art historians of the modern era, however--Jacob Burckhardt, Aby Warburg, Heinrich Wölfflin, Erwin Panofsky, Meyer Schapiro, and Ernst Gombrich--struggled to adapt their work to the rupture of artistic modernism, leading to the current predicaments of the discipline. Combining erudition with clarity, this book makes a landmark contribution to the understanding of art history." Art Historiography. Art History. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 N7480 .W66 2019 PNLIB21062195 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 2382 2382