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Focusing on the development of art history within the context of the nineteenth-century German academy, this study explores how academic institutions shaped the understanding and appreciation of art during this period. It delves into the methodologies, key figures, and cultural influences that contributed to the establishment of art history as a discipline, highlighting the interplay between art, education, and societal values.

The Shaping of Art History examines art history's formation in the German academy in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the work of Wilhelm Vöge and Adolph Goldschmidt, two influential scholars of medieval art, Kathryn Brush analyzes their methods and particularly those scholarly projects that were critical to the development of their approaches. This is the first work to consider how the study of the pioneering scholarship in the field of medieval art is critical to an understanding of the formulation of art historical method as a whole.