1. A BRIEF AND SELECT HISTORY OF ART HISTORY

2. Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) The Natural History

3. Giorgio Vasari 1511-1574 The Lives of the Artists (published 1550)

4. Karel van Mander 1548-1606 The Painter’s Book (published 1604)

5. Johann Joachim Winckelmann 1717-1768 The History of Ancient Art (published 1764)

6. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 1749-1832. Of German Architecture (published 1772)

7. Bernard Berenson. 1865-1959. …… the empirical approach

8. William Morris 1834-1896 The Revival of Architecture (published 1888

9. G.W.F. Hegel 1770-1831 …… the idealist approach and the notion of zeitgeist

10. Jacob Burckhardt 1818-1897 The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (published 1860)

11. Aby Warburg 1866-1929

12. Erwin Panofsky 1892-1969

13. Ernst Gombrich 1909-2001

14. Roland Barthes 1915-1980

15. Jacques Derrida 1930-2004