Which art analysis involves looking outside the work of art in order to determine its meaning?
contextual
Who wrote the text Natural History?
Pliny the Elder
Who gathered the biographies of great Italian artists in The Lives of the Artists?
Giorgio Vasari
Modern art history was strongly influenced by which eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosopher who focused on a rigorous study of stylistic development relating to historical context.
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
When did art history arise as an academic discipline?
eighteenth century
Why is direct examination of a piece of artwork considered ideal?
because much is lost when we look at reproduction rather than the original subject
What has much of what we know of the earlier life on earth been revealed around?
a study of the objects or artifacts that remain from early cultures
