by Heinrich Wölfflin · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467037845
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This book, 'Fundamental Concepts of Art History', is a classic work by the Swiss critic Heinrich Wölfflin. Through a comparative analysis between works of the Renaissance and the Baroque, Wölfflin characterizes these two styles through pairs of opposing concepts, such as the linear versus the pictorial and the superficial versus the profound. The author establishes guidelines for an art history that follows the genesis of the modern vision in painting, sculpture, decoration, and architecture. An essential book for art scholars and those who wish to learn to enjoy it.
Heinrich Wölfflin was a Swiss art historian, esthetician and educator, whose objective classifying principles were influential in the development of formal analysis in art history in the early 20th century. He taught at the University of Basel, the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in the generation that saw German art history's rise to pre-eminence. His three most important books, still consulted, are Renaissance und Barock (1888), Die Klassische Kunst, and Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe.
