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art history
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......mid-19th cent., art history was raised to the status...The latter three saw art history as the analysis of forms...Giselda Pollack. Modern art history is a broad field of...Hauser, The Social History of Art (4 vol., 1958–60......
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Wittkower, Rudolf
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......department into one of the vital centers of scholarship in art history. His highly original works in English include Architectural...Essays in the History of Architecture (1967); Essays in the History of Art (1967); and Baroque Art: The Jesuit Contribution (with......
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Venturi, Adolfo
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......His son, Lionello Venturi, 1885–1961, taught the history of art at the Univ. of Rome. Central to his thought was the...illuminates the art of the past. His major work is his History of Art Criticism (tr. 1936)....
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Faure, Élie
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......brought his scientific knowledge to bear in his study of the history of art, relating it to the progress of human culture. Of his long list of critical and historical works, the best known is his History of Art (5 vol., 1909–21; tr. by Walter Pach, 1937)....
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Blunt, Anthony Frederick
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......historian and Soviet spy, grad. Cambridge. Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art after 1947 and professor of the history of art at the Univ. of London, Blunt also served from 1952 as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures and was one of the most powerful......
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Cambridge, University of
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......Reformation; in modern times it has excelled in science. It has faculties of classics, divinity, English, architecture and history of art, modern and medieval languages, Oriental studies, music, economics and politics, history, law, philosophy, education......
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Palomino de Castro y Velasco, Acislo Antonio
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......the Spanish Vasari. He painted frescoes and easel pictures in Valencia, Córdoba, and Granada, but he is famous chiefly for his history of art, El museo pictórico y escala óptica (3 vol., 1715–24), which contains a wealth of biographical material concerning......
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Sandrart, Joachim Von
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......1606–88, German painter. An academic painter fond of chiaroscuro effects, Sandrart is best remembered for his comprehensive history of art (1675). This history records invaluable information on Sandrart's German contemporaries....
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Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
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......art and literary history at Bonn. Schlegel was one of the first critics to see the importance of social evolution in the history of art, and he was a champion of the Nibelungenlied. He is most noted for his extraordinary translations of Shakespeare (1797......
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Evelyn, John
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......Deptford, where he cultivated his garden and wrote on various subjects, including reforestation, natural science, the history of art, and numismatics. After the Restoration he became a public servant and was one of the founders of the Royal Society......