Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Early Modern Art One Hundredth Anniversary Edition

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Heinrich WölfflinA New Translation by Jonathan BlowerEssays by Evonne Levy and Tristan Weddigen Principles of Art History by Heinrich Wölfflin (1864–1945), a revolutionary attempt to construct a science of art through the study of the development of style, has been a foundational work of formalist art history since it was first published in 1915. At once systematic and subjective, and remarkable for its compelling descriptions of works of art, Wölfflin’s text has endured as an accessible yet rigorous approach…