Introduction -- Artists' histories -- Poussin and the French Academy -- Art in the Enlightenment -- The Laocoön debate -- Winckelmann's revolution -- Toward an historical discipline -- Goethe as art historian -- Art history in romanticism -- Rumohr and the Berlin School -- Jakob Burkhardt and the Renaissance -- Reality and method -- Art history in the Gründerzeit -- The Dresden Holbein debate -- Impressionist aesthetics -- The Vienna School -- The discovery of form -- Art history at the turn of the century -- Art history of expressionism -- The founding of iconology -- Foundations of art history today -- Epilogue: The image of the art historian
