Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art

“What are the fundamental differences between classic and baroque art? Is there a pattern underlying the seemingly helter-skelter development of art in different cultures and at different times? What causes our entirely different reactions to precisely the same painting or to the same painter?

In this now-classic treatise, published originally in Germany in the early 1920s, Professor Wölfflin provi...