The Literature of Art: A Manual for Source Work in the History of Early Modern European Art Theory

"The Literature of Art" is justifiably the best known publication by Julius Schlosser (1866-1938). Its author achieved a knowledge of the art-historical bibliography and the theories of art and aesthetics between antiquity and the early 19thcentury in what was probably a greater depth and breadth than any other individual, while arriving at any critical consistency. His subject is the historical and critical study of the arts before it became an academic discipline. The present English edition incorporates all emendations from previous Italian and French editions, adding only what seems essential of more recent publications, names, publishers and page references, while correcting as many of the errors as has been possible.