L’origine de l’art baroque à Rome. Proche et Moyen Orient between concept and technique

between concept and technique

but also to Alexandria's role as a military base

Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford

Medals and Antiques at the Bibliothèque nationale de France

excédant le strict monde «photographique«

L’origine de l’art baroque à Rome. Proche et Moyen Orient between concept and techniqueThe Origin of Baroque Art in Rome is the posthumous publication (1907) of the notes from a lecture given by Alos Riegl at the University of Vienna in 1898 1899. The great Austrian art historian, who had devoted his lectures from 1897 to 1899 to the Historical Grammar of the Plastic Arts and had just published his Artistic Industry of the Late Empire in 1901, thus appears here in the full maturity of his thought. Having in mind Wlfflin's essay,