From Strzygowski’s “Orient oder Rom” to Hans Sedlmayr’s “Closest Orient”

The article presents a history of art historical studies at the University of Vienna in the first half of the twentieth century in terms of its approach to oriental topics. It takes as its starting point a 1937 letter of Hans Sedlmayr, then-director of the Institute of Art History, to Ernst Diez, pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zehra Tonbul
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2020-12-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/tonbul.pdf