The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4)

INTRODUCTION

Old and new histories of art.--Seeming "restlessness" of the nineteenth century.--To recognise "style" in modern art, and to prove the logic of its evolution, the principles of judgment in the old art-histories are also to be employed for the new.--The question is, what new element the age brought into the history of art, not what it borrowed eclecti...