Introduction: A History of Methods
From Antiquity to the Renaissance: Piecemeal Beginnings
The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Biographies
The Eighteenth Century: Cultural History, and the Cycle
The Nineteenth Century: Empiricism, Metaphysics and Cultural History
The Early Twentieth Century: Responses to Modernism
The Mid-Twentieth Century: Cumulative Variety
The Late Twentieth Century: New Art Histories
The Present: Versatility and Potential
The Lives of the Artists, 1568 / Giorgio Vasari
The Painter's Book, 1604 / Karel van Mander
Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects, 1672 / Giovanni Bellori
The History of Ancient Art, 1764 / Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Of German Architecture, 1772 / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Reflections on History, 1872 / Jacob Burckhardt
'The Revival of Architecture', 1888 / William Morris
Italian Painters, 1890 / Giovanni Morelli
Late Roman Art Industry, 1901 / Alois Riegl.
