Arranged chronologically, features more than forty essays by an international panel of experts on art, art critiicism, and art therory tracing the evolution of art from ancient times to the twentieth century. A unique and authoritative guide to theories of art from Ancient Greece to the end of the Victorian era, this is an invaluable book for both students and general readers with an interest in art history, aesthetics and visual culture. Alphabetical list of contents ix Notes on contributors xi Preface xvii Plato (427--347 BC) 3(4) David E. Cooper Aristotle (384--322 BC) 7(6) Ronna Burger Plotinus (204/5--70 AD) 13(5) Suzanne Stern-Gillet Augustine (354--430) 18(4) Robert Crouse Alcuin (c. 735--804) and Theodulf of Orleans (died 821) 22(6) Hugh Bredin Suger (1081--1151) and Bernard of Clairvaux (1090--1153) 28(6) Hugh Bredin Thomas Aquinas (1225--74) 34(4) Hugh Bredin Cennino Cennini (c. 1360 -- before 1427) 38(7) Roger Tarr Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378--1455) 45(6) Roger Tarr Leon Battista Alberti (1404--72) 51(7) Roger Tarr Leonardo da Vinci (1452--1519) 58(6) Erin J. Campbell Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475--1564) 64(6) James Hall Pietro Aretino (1492--1556), Paolo Pino (fl. 1534--65) and Lodovico Dolce (1508--68) 70(6) Erin J. Campbell Giorgio Vasari (1511--74) 76(6) Sharon Gregory Giovan Paolo Lomazzo (1538--1600) and Federico Zuccaro (1543--1609) 82(7) Nick Webb Karel van Mander (1548--1606) 89(6) Walter S. Melion Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1615--96) 95(5) Kaylee Spencer-Ahrens Andre Felibien (1619--96) 100(5) Claire Pace Roger de Piles (1635--1709) 105(5) Thomas Puttfarken Earl of Shaftesbury (1671--1713) 110(5) A. Owen Aldridge William Hogarth (1697--1764) 115(6) Matthew Craske Denis Diderot (1713--84) 121(6) Mark Ledbury Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717--68) 127(6) Alex Potts Joshua Reynolds (1723--92) 133(6) Harry Mount Immanuel Kant (1724--1804) 139(5) David E. Cooper Edmund Burke (1729--97) 144(5) Abigail Chantler Gotthold Lessing (1729--81) 149(6) Abigail Chantler Friedrich Schiller (1759--1805) 155(5) Abigail Chantler G.W.F. Hegel (1770--1831) 160(7) Gary Shapiro Arthur Schopenhauer (1788--1860) 167(5) Peter Lewis Soren Kierkegaard (1813--55) 172(6) George Pattison Karl Marx (1818--83) 178(5) Richard Drake Jacob Burckhardt (1818--97) 183(5) Richard Drake John Ruskin (1819--1900) 188(7) Andrew Robert Leng Eugene Fromentin (1820--76) 195(7) Barbara Wright Charles Baudelaire (1821--67) 202(4) Rosemary Lloyd Edmond (1822--96) and Jules (1830--70) de Goncourt 206(6) Pamela Warner Hippolyte Taine (1828--93) 212(6) Hilary Nias Leo Tolstoy (1828--1910) 218(5) W. Gareth Jones William Morris (1834--96) 223(7) Linda A. Julian Walter Pater (1839--94) 230(6) Laurel Brake Friedrich Nietzsche (1844--1900) 236(6) Ruben Berrios Alois Riegl (1858--1905) 242(7) Margaret Iversen Index 249