Journal of Delacroix (Arts & Letters)4 reviews Hubert Wellington Phaidon Press, 1995 how one great artist thelt and fought (sic) + Inside the Mind of Delacroix + Greatest Testament + An intimate glimpse into the mind and times of Delacroix             The Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics)20 reviews Giorgio Vasari Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 Works and lives of great masters by their contemporary + Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Artists Volume One + The Pillars of Art + Outstanding!!!! + A must for any art historian             The Story of Art45 reviews E.H. Gombrich Phaidon Press, 1995 This is not merely an story of art, but history of architecture + The story of art + A Perfect Book to Travel With + A Steal + Pretty good.             Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts Alois Riegl Zone Books, 2004 The work of Alois Riegl (1858-1905) has been highly influential in art history of the modern age. Riegl, the most important member of the so-called Vienna School, developed a refined technique of visual or formal analysis that departed from the iconological method, which emphasized decoding motifs through recourse to texts. Riegl also pioneered understanding of the changing role of the viewer, ...             A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Oxford World's Classics)4 reviews Edmund Burke Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 A Brilliant Enquiry into the Passions of Love and Fear + Our ideas of the sublime and beautiful: Where do they originate? + philosophical by Edmund Burke + A thoughtful look at what we can't define...and taste.             History of the Art of Antiquity (Texts & Documents) Johann Joachim Winckelmann Getty Publications, 2006 In 1764, Johann Joachim Winckelmann published a key early instance of art-historical thinking, his "Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums", here translated into English for the first time. Dazzled by the sensuous and plastic beauty of recently excavated artifacts - coins, engraved gems, vases, paintings, reliefs, and statues - Winckelmann synthesized the visual and written evidence then available ...             Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance1 review Erwin Panofsky Westview Press, 1972 Wonderful for experts and beginners alike... Having just begun an art history course, I am happy to have been introduced to Erwin Panofsky. This book is wonderful for experts and beginners alike, as it does not assume the reader has any foreknowledge of iconography, but it does not bore the reader who does. The imagery in this book is ...             Art and Illusion7 reviews E. H. Gombrich Princeton University Press, 2000 No one does it better + It will teach you understanding for the visual language + Art and Illusion review by artist/filmmaker + Fantastic book             The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology (Oxford History of Art)14 reviews Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 Looking at Art History + A book for the serious art student or enthusiast + An analysis of Art History, not an introduction to Art History + A difficult read             Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry (Johns Hopkins Paperbacks)2 reviews Gotthold Ephraim Lessing The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984 The Godfather of Art Criticism + Artistic Portrayal of Time and Space If you are of the notion that the tide is turning in aesthetics once again, and you're right, then G.E. Lessing's seminal Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry is once again a necessary starting point. Edward A. McCormick has finally given English speaking academians a ...             The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity (Texts & Documents)3 reviews Aby Warburg Getty Publications, 1999 Warburg on Renaissance & Antiquity in English. + Epochal Scholarship Finally Available in English Thanks to the Getty Research Institute, Kurt W. Forster, and David Britt for bringing this extremely important volume to us in English. The arrival of this book--a new edition of the 1932 work--has been much anticipated. Finally the bulk of Warburg's essays on the relationships between antique ...             Patrons and Painters: A Study in the Relations between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroque, ... Francis Haskell Yale University Press, 1980 Fusing the social and economic history with the cultural and artistic achievements of seventeenth and eighteenth century Italy, this book presents a perspective on the period.             A Documentary History of Art, Vol. 2 Elizabeth Gilmore Holt Princeton University Press, 1982             Classic Art: An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance2 reviews Heinrich Wolfflin Phaidon Press, 1994 Classical Book about Classic Art + Biased Opinions Although this book mainly focus only in Italian Renaissance, it contains enough issues must be addressed for this fascinating art reflorishing period as a whole. The analysis method used in this book is full of sparkling, with a perfect combination of technical points as well as passion. I began to ...             History of Beauty14 reviews Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen Rizzoli International Publications, 2004 History of Beauty + Great + Beauty Elevated + A guide to Transitions in Art             The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Penguin Classics)17 reviews Jacob Burckhardt Penguin Classics, 1990 synthesis of an era + Great Essay Slopppy Edition The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Modern Library Classics)The Civilization offers a handy checklist for anyone wishing to delve deeper into the Medieval and Renaissance studies. The somewhat tortuous introduction which outlines the political turmoil in 15th century Italy adds weight to ...             Meaning in the Visual Arts2 reviews Erwin Panofsky University Of Chicago Press, 1983 Essays by a great scholar in the field + A masterpiece in Art History Panofsky was one of the great founding fathers of Art History. His studies in Iconology opened up a whole new way of reading meaning into works of Art. In this work he combines masterful scholarship with great theoretical innovativeness to provide his own reading of the world of Art. Though his ...             From the Classicists to the Impressionists: Art and Architecture in the Nineteenth Century (Documentary ... Elizabeth Gilmore Holt Yale University Press, 1986 The nineteenth-century historian and artist shared the same aim, to present the unsystematic diversity of peoples, cultures, customs, and myths in a process of evolutionary transformation, that was to be comprehended by feeling.             Principles of Art History2 reviews Heinrich Wolfflin Dover Publications, 1950 One of the classics in the History of Art. + An important book in art history. There is really no way to rate this book. It would be like rating Freud or Marx. Wolfflin is one of the cornerstones of art history. This is essential reading for any student of the subject. Although one might see limitations in his theory today, his ideas were revolutionary when first ...             Baroque and Rococo (World of Art) Germain Bazin Thames & Hudson, 1985