The Shaping of Art History: Wilhelm Vöge, Adolph Goldschmidt, and the Study of Medieval Art

Brush, Kathryn

The Shaping of Art History examines art history's formation in the German academy in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the work of Wilhelm Vöge and Adolph Goldschmidt, two influential scholars of medieval art, Kathryn Brush analyses their methods and particularly those scholarly projects that were critical to the development of their approaches. Her work combines intellectual and institutional history with the study of artistic monuments and biography. It considers how the study of the pioneering scholarship in the field of medieval art is critical to an understanding of the formulation of art historical method as a whole.

EAN

9780521147620

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published

24 June 2010

Pages

280