‘Scholarship and Empire’: Matthew Rampley, The Vienna School of Art History: Empire and the Politics of Scholarship, 1847-1918, University Park: Penn State Press, 2013

• Main Author: Margaret Olin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2014-12-01
• Series: Journal of Art Historiography
• Subjects: Matthew Rampley; Habsburg Empire; Vienna School of Art HIstory; Franz Wickhoff; Alois Riegl; Jacob von Falke; Marian Sokolowski; Izador Krsnavi; Albert Ilg; Camillo Sitte; Rudolph Eitelberger
• Online Access: https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/olin-rampleyreview.pdf
• ISSN: 2042-4752

Matthew Rampley’s The Vienna School of Art History examines the early era of the famed group of art historians, curators and art functionaries against the Habsburg Empire that framed their enterprise. It takes into account the centrifugal forces of identity, nationalism and Imperial ideologies that informed their ideas and preferences. A desideratum is the project of relating formal analyses by the thinkers he studies to the ideological allegiances that he uncovers in their thought.