August Schmarsow

August Schmarsow

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August Schmarsow
August Schmarsow (26 May 1853 – 19 January 1936) was a German art historian. He was born at Schildfeld (now part of Vellahn),Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and was educated in Zürich, Strassburg and Bonn. He became docent of the history of art at Göttingen in 1881, professor there in 1882, at Breslau in 1886, andwent to Florence in 1892, and thence to Berlin in 1893. In 1888 he founded the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Institute for the History of Art, Florence), aninstitution to promote original research in the history of Italian art, now part of the Max Planck Society, a German state institution. His writings are characterized by soundscholarship and acute criticism. He wrote biographies of David D'Angers, Ingres, and Prudhon in Robert Dohme's Kunst und Kunstler; Raphael und Pinturicchio in Siena (1880). he alsowrote: • • • • • • • Melozzo da Forli (1886) Giovanni Santi (1887 St. Martin von Lucca und de Anfänge der toskanischen Sculptur im Mittelalter (1889) Masaccio-Studien(1895-99), with atlas Barock und Rokoko (1897) Grundbegriffe der Kunstwissenschaft (1905) Federigo Barocci (1909-10)

• Gherardo Starnina (1912) • This article incorporates text froman edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.

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