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unusual facts about Principles of art



Italian Neoclassical and 19th-century art

It places emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts as they are demonstrated in the architecture of Classical antiquity and in particular, the architecture of Ancient Rome, of which many examples remained.


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Heinrich Wölfflin

The most important journal for aesthetics and philosophy of art, the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, is publishing a special issue commemorating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Principles of Art History in 2015, edited by Bence Nanay.