Classicism & Romantism.

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The late Frederick Antal was one of the most influential art historians of our day. He is known especially for the wider significance and deeper meaning he gave to art history by placing art in the general history of ideas and relating it to its economic, social and political environment -- an undertaking calling for encyclopedic knowledge, meticulous documentation, and historical insight. ... Antal's reputation rested largely on the now classic Florentine Painting and Its Social Background and on a number of highly original, authoritative and stimulating articles that had appeared over the years in various specialized periodicals. Making available the more important and characteristic of these essays, the publication of this volume represents an important new contribution to art history. Not only does it amplify the principles underlying Professor Antal's art-historical method, but also makes available in one place many of his pioneering studies on the origin and evolution of mannerism and the interaction of romanticism and classicism, especially from the time of the French Revolution to the death of Gericault. -- The Author -- Hungarian by birth, the late Frederick Antal was a man of the widest culture. He studied art history at the universities of Budapest, Berlin, Paris and Vienna and thereafter traveled extensively in Italy, where he devoted himself to pioneering research in the history of mannerist painting. List of plates vii Acknowledgments xi Foreword by David Carritt xiii I Reflections on Classicism and Romanticism 1 2 The problem of Mannerism in the Netherlands 47 3 Observations on Girolamo da Carpi 107 4 Around Salviati 163 5 Mr. Oldham and his Guests by Highmore 167 6 Remarks on the method of art-history 175 Index 191 Plates at end of book