History of Art Criticism

book by Venturi

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In art criticism: Foundations of art criticism in antiquity and the Middle Ages
In his seminal book History of Art Criticism (1936), Lionello Venturi asks: “What is criticism if not a relationship between a principle of judgment and the intuition of a work of art or of an artistic personality?” The principle of judgment can be informed by general ideas about art,…
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