August Schmarsow
August Schmarsow (26 May 1853, Schildfeld – 19 January 1936,
German
art historian.
Biography
He was born in Schildfeld (now part of
Leipzig in 1893.[1]
In 1888 he founded the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Institute for the History of Art, Florence), an institution to promote original research in the history of Italian art, now part of the Max Planck Society, a German state institution.
Literary works
His writings are characterized by sound scholarship and acute criticism. He wrote
(1880); he also wrote:- Melozzo da Forli (1886)
- Giovanni Santi (1887
- St. Martin von Lucca und die Anfänge der toskanischen Sculptur im Mittelalter (1889)
- Masaccio-Studien (1895–99), with atlas
- Barock und Rokoko (1897)
- Grundbegriffe der Kunstwissenschaft (1905)
- Federigo Barocci(1909–10)
- Gherardo Starnina (1912)
References
Media related to August Schmarsow at Wikimedia Commons
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- ^ Prof. Dr. phil. August Schmarsow Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig
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