Aloïs Riegl and the riddle of Rembrandt’s Staalmeesters: Vienna schooling Dutch art scholarship

Aloïs Riegl’s elucidations of visual particulars in his Dutch Group Portrait of 1902 are not in contrast to but rather inform his theory of the development of group portraiture. Riegl sought to explain the Kunstwollen or ‘will of art’ of Dutch group portraits, what they seek to do as art. Despite hi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Benjamin Binstock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2023-12-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/binstock.pdf