Classic Art

Heinrich Wölfflin was a Swiss art historian who developed new methods of interpreting art works that profoundly influenced generations of art scholars and critics. He studied under Jacob Burckhardt at the University of Basel, and in 1893 succeeded him in the Chair of Art History. Wölfflin wrote extensively on Renaissance and Baroque art.

• Part 1: antecedents; Leonardo; Michelangelo; Raphael; Fra Bartolommeo; Andrea del Sarto; Michelangelo (after 1520). Part 2: the new ideals; the new beauty; the new pictorial form.

"Wölfflin's Classic Art has done more than any other volume to promote an understanding of High Renaissance art. His interpretation of the styles of Leonardo, Raphael, Fra Bartolommeo, Andrea del Sarto and Michelangelo should induce a new generation of art lovers to look at the achievements of these artists with fresh eyes."—John Pope-Hennessy