What are the fundamental differences between Classical and Baroque art? Is there a patterned model that forms the basis of art's spiral development in different cultures at different times? What causes us to react completely differently to the same painter or the same painting?

In Principles of Art History, first published in Germany in the early 1920s and now a classic text, Heinrich Wölfflin offers a set of objective criteria to answer such questions. The author, who examines elements such as style, quality, and mode of representation through five contrasting concepts (Linear-Painterly, Plane-Recession, Closed Form-Open Form, Multiplicity-Unity/Clarity, Clearness-Unclearness), also delves deeply into sculpture and architecture, analyzing the works of sixty-four artists. Approximately one hundred and fifty visuals produced by Botticelli, van Cleve, Dürer, Holbein, Brueghel, Bouts, Hals, Rembrandt, Velázquez, Titian, Vermeer, and many other important artists help the reader understand Wölfflin's methodology of art criticism.

Principles of Art History, re-published by Hayalperest Yayınları with a new translation, enables those conducting methodological research on art, art criticism, and the evaluation of art to progress on solid foundations.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)